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Category: Veterans History Project

Two head and shoulders photos of Arthur Singleton, one in his military uniform and the other in a suit and tie.

World War I: Two Soldiers’ Stories

Posted by: Neely Tucker

The Arthur Singleton and Jessie Lockett collections are the Veterans History Project’s first from African American veterans of World War I, and their letters, journals and photographs offer glimpses into the adversity and resilience that characterize the African American experience of that war. They are small time capsules into another era of American life.