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The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

DocumentaryHistoryWar
0.0·2017·1h 30m

Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like everyone else. They saw fighting heroically in th...

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Philippe Baudoin

Musicologist, Jazz Historian

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Self

DIRECTOR

François Reinhardt

OVERVIEW

Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like everyone else. They saw fighting heroically in the trenches as their chance to achieve this. In 1918, the 15th New York National Guard Regiment became the most highly decorated unit of the First World War.