and Unhalting Array--Few Permitted to Volunteer--Only National
Guard Accepted--No New Units Formed--Selective Draft Their
Opportunity--Partial Division of Guardsmen--Complete Division of
Selectives--Many in Training--Enter Many Branches of Service--Negro
Nurses Authorized--Negro Y.M.C.A. Workers--Negro War
Correspondent--Negro Assistant to Secretary of War--Training Camp for
Negro Officers First Time in Artillery--Complete Racial Segregation

Chapter VIII. Recrudescence of South's Intolerance.

Confronted by Racial Prejudice--Splendid Attitude of Negro Shamed
It--Kept out of Navy--Only One Percent of Navy Personnel
Negroes--Modified Marines Contemplated--Few Have Petty Officers'
Grades--Separate Ships Proposed--Negro Efficiency in Navy--Material for
"Black Ships"--Navy Opens Door to Negro Mechanics

Chapter IX. Previous Wars in Which Negro Figured.

Shot Heard Around the World--Crispus Attucks--Slave Leads Sons of
Freedom--The Boston Massacre--Anniversary Kept for Years--William Nell,
Historian--3,000 Negroes in Washington's Forces--A Stirring
History--Negro Woman Soldier--Border Indian Wars--Negro Heroes

Chapter X. From Lexington to Carrizal.

Negro in War of 1812--Incident of the Chesapeake--Battle of Lake
Erie--Perry's Fighters 10 Percent Negroes--Incident of the "Governor
Tompkins"--Colonists Form Negro Regiments--Defenders of New
Orleans--Andrew Jackson's Tribute--Negroes in Mexican and Civil Wars--In
the Spanish-American War--Negroes in the Philippines--Heroes of
Carrizal--General Butler's Tribute to Negroes--Wendell Phillips on
Toussaint L'Ouverture

Chapter XI. Hour of His Nation's Peril.

Negro's Patriotic Attitude--Selective Draft in Effect--Features and
Results--Bold Reliance on Faith in People--No Color Line
Drawn--Distribution of Registrants by States--Negro and White
Registrations Compared--Negro Percentages Higher--Claimed Fewer
Exemptions--Inductions by States--Better Physically than Whites--Tables,
Facts and Figures

Chapter XII. Negro Slackers and Pacifists Unknown.

Such Words not in his Vocabulary--Desertions Explained--General Crowder
Exonerates Negro--No Willful Delinquency--Strenuous Efforts to Meet
Regulations--No "Conscientious Objectors"--No Draft Evaders or
Resisters--Negro's Devotion Sublime--Justifies His Freedom--Forgets His
Sorrows--Rises Above His Wrongs--Testimony of Local Boards--German
Propaganda Wasted--A New Americanism

Chapter XIII. Roster of Negro Officers.

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