Discussion !: Background: When the First World War beganAfrican-American leaders

Discussion !: Background: When the First World War beganAfrican-American leaders pressed the government to provide blackmen the right to go to combat to prove their devotion to theircountry. Hoping that their service would lay a stake on citizenshipthat the nation would have no choice but to honor the New Negroof the 1920s adopted a more militant stance toward civil rights.The civil rights struggle envisioned at the time however made fewconcrete gains. Discrimination and disenfranchisementpersisted.