Bonus Army Interview: Allen

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Title

Bonus Army Interview: Allen

Subject

Local History
Labor History
Great Depression
Protest Movements
World War I

Description

Tenuous ties between the Bonus Army and the Communist-led Workers Ex-Servicemen's League drove many to view the Bonus Army protesters as a Communist threat. And in addition, the integrated Bonus Army camps provided a viable threat to the segregated military structure of the U.S. Army. Historian Thomas Allen discusses how the racial and political fears held by the U.S. government affected the Bonus Expeditionary Force.

This is a transcript of an oral history produced during research for a documentary film "March of the Bonus Army".

Creator

Allen, Thomas B.

Source

Grant - 03-01-04

Date

2003

Rights

Copyright held jointly by the narrator, and the interviewer.
The Humanities Council of Washington, DC has the right to display and distribute materials funded by HCWDC grants.

Relation

March of the Bonus Army

Format

Document

Language

English

Type

Document

Identifier

02b.01.2003
641

Coverage

Washington, DC
Ward 7
Anacostia
Portland
Harlem

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Original Format

Transcript

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