Sergeant Henry Johnson . Henry Johnson served as a member of Company C, 3. Infantry Regiment, 9. Division, American Expeditionary Forces, during combat operations against the enemy on the front lines of the Western Front in France. While on night sentry duty, May 1. Johnson and a fellow Soldier, Pvt. Needham Roberts, received a surprise attack by a German raiding party consisting of at least 1. While under intense enemy fire and despite receiving significant wounds, Johnson mounted a brave retaliation resulting in several enemy casualties. When his fellow Soldier was badly wounded, Johnson prevented him from being. German forces. Johnson exposed himself to grave danger by advancing from his position to engage an enemy soldier in hand- to- hand combat. Wielding only a knife and being seriously wounded, Johnson continued fighting, took his Bolo knife and. Displaying great courage, Johnson held back the enemy force until they retreated. The enemy raid's failure to secure prisoners was due to the bravery and resistance of Johnson and his fellow comrade. The effect of their fierce. Infantry Regiment. This World War I documentary showcases the 15th New York Infantry Regiment of the US Army, known as the 'Harlem. THE HERITAGE OF THE GREAT WAR. The Great War in Color - 1. Senegalese soldiers have found billets in a shack near the frontline Senegal was a French colony. 1918 Vintage World War I Black Military Hell Fighters Print'Our Colored Heroes' $345.00. War propaganda posters aimed at blacks. The poster had a feel- good aura about it. Maybe it was the bright yellows and reds and greens along with the brown- complexioned people encircling the proud image of an African American soldier neatly pressed for war. It was the poster for a film called “Our Colored Soldiers,” made around 1. African Americans to join the U. S. The poster was life imagined and not life real. It was a time when African Americans were living in a world that picked at their being and nibbled away at their dignity. Black Cinema Part I -- Race Movies - The Silent Era. Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled, Our Colored Fighters, A Reckless Rover. Run and When You Hit, Hit Hard (all 1918. Streaming resources for Our Colored Fighters. Links to watch this USA Documentary, Short Movie online. The Negro Soldier as a Fighter. Efficiency of Colored Fighters. Our boys advanced steadily like seasoned veterans and never lost a foot of ground they had. But none of that was apparent in this warm poster that portrayed African Americas as any other American – giving up their sons to war, welcoming them home, celebrating them. It was the ultimate war propaganda poster. I could easily see black people lulled into thinking that just maybe life could be different. Even the face on the poster was not the distorted image that they were used to seeing of themselves. This soldier looked like a next- door neighbor, somebody just like them who was willing to fight for his country (and maybe freedom for his people?). The poster for the circa 1. Our Colored Soldiers,” part of the exhibit of war propaganda posters at the Penn Museum. From the pbs. org website. The poster is one of 3. Black Bodies in Propaganda: The Art of the War Poster” at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. They will be on display until March 2, 2. They are from the collection of Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, a co- host of PBS’ “History Detectives” and a Penn professor.“I had been on the History Detectives for five years and I decided I needed to collect something,” Zuberi said recently during an interview at an opening reception for the exhibit. Not sure of where to start, he consulted his History Detectives’ co- hosts for advice. They suggested that he find items that were unique, that he enjoyed collecting and that not many others were collecting, he said in a museum pamphlet.“I decided on poster and first- edition books,” he said, specializing in first editions by African American authors “across centuries.” He started with W. E. B. Du. Bois, who first published in the 1. Zuberi says he has first editions of all of the books of Du. Bois, a scholar who was one of the founders of the NAACP and longtime editor of its Crisis magazine. Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, with “The Two- Dollar Venus” poster. From an Associated Press interview. Zuberi picked up the posters from various sources. To keep his identity a secret, he said, he enlisted associates to bid and buy for him. He has 4. 6 posters in his collection. The posters in the exhibit span the Civil War in the United States to colonialism in Africa and the civil rights movement in this country. They were used by various countries to engage Africans and Africa Americans in times of war. As Zuberi pointed out, they were not necessarily created by their targets. You could tell that by looking at some of the images. A French poster by Emile Levy showed a larger- than life Amazon woman executing an African man. It was used to justify colonialism.“Our Colored Heroes” poster celebrating the bravery of Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts. A 1. 94. 2 Italian poster by Gino Boccasile presented a stereotypical image of a grinning black soldier carrying the famous Greek sculpture Venus de Milo with $2 crudely written on its white plaster body to imply the man’s ignorance about art and penchant for looting – actions considered antithetical to everyone except African Americans. Boccasile was a supporter of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, and illustrated posters that were both racist and anti- Semitic. Some of the posters, though, depicted black people as noble and heroic. An 1. 86. 3 Currier & Ives poster showed battles of the 5. Massachusetts Regiment, the first black unit organized during the Civil War. There was also a poster depicting the Buffalo Soldiers’joining Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders at San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish American War. In the 1. 96. 0s, Mao Tse Tungand the Chinese offered posters of empathy with the civil rights movement, and the Russians presented the teachings of Leninas a way for black folks to escape racism and colonialism. Their story was featured in a History Detectives’ episodein 2. People of the World” Chinese poster, 1. One of the most familiar posters for me was “Keep Us Flying,” which used the image of a Tuskegee Airman to spur African Americans to buy war bonds in the 1. Other copies have come up for auction at Swann Auction Galleries, the most recent this year. Zuberi said his favorite poster was “The Two- Dollar Venus,” which he also considered one of the “most offensive.”“It’s propaganda at its height,” he said in the museum pamphlet. It is giving you two reflections of things that are real but distorted – both of them – to give you a message about African- American participation in WWII in a negative way.”Another poster promoting the circa 1. Our Colored Soldiers.” From the New York Daily News website. The film poster, though, spoke to me. The film itself followed the 3. Infantry Regiment, or as the men came to be known – the “Harlem Hellfighters.”The regiment served under French command because an American general would not accept them. Johnson and Roberts were part of the unit. The 2. 4- minute filmwas commissioned by President Woodrow Wilson and the U. S. Du. Bois urged black men to sign up for the military, much as Frederick Douglasshad done 5. Civil War. It was made by the Downing Films Companyof New York, one of several African American companies that distributed or made films about African American soldiers fighting in World War I. The New York Times in 1. Downing distributed the film and others like it produced by the U. S. Some of the profits of “Our Colored Soldiers,” according to the Times, were to go to scholarships at Tuskegee Institute in honor of the men. It was one of two posters for the film, Zuberi said. The posters have the title “Our Colored Fighters,” while several references to the film on the web identified the title as “Our Colored Soldiers.” The exhibit lists the title as “Our Colored Soldiers.”A circa 1. Keep Us Flying” featuring a Tuskegee Airman. One of the most interesting things I learned was of a 1. Harmon Foundation, which starting in the 1. African American artists in the United States. Many well- known artists participated in the Harmon competitions. The film was titled “How An African Tribe is Ruled Under Colonial Government,” and was shot in what was then Belgium’s colony of Congo (which gained its independence in 1. Democratic Republic of the Congo). It was perhaps one of the movies the foundation produced as part of a series about African culture, life and Christian missionaries on the continent in the 1.
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