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The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

0% | Dec 13, 2017 | Documentary, History, War

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.

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François Reinhardt
Director

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Philippe Baudoin
Musicologist, Jazz Historian

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