Bonus Army Interview: Horton

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Title

Bonus Army Interview: Horton

Subject

Local History
Labor History
Great Depression
Protest Movements
World War I

Description

Historian James Horton explores the racial aspects of the Bonus Army and how veteran status became a unifying factor despite socialized segregation in the 1930's. Horton discusses how the concept of the New Negro and exposure to integrated European societies during WWI created a generation of African American veterans unwilling to put up with white superiority back home. Integration in the Bonus Expeditionary Forces become a point of contention against the heavily segregated U.S. Army.

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

Creator

Horton, James O.

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

02e.01.2003
645

Coverage

Washington, DC
Ward 7
Anacostia

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Original Format

Transcript

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