would like to quote from is a young man who had eight promising future, many have heard his name, it's lanny g the third. we. our lucky that our director was willing to write the instruction and a bullet to this book, which is the work of many hands. i would like to quote from his epilogue, to frame a little bit about what you are going to hear tonight from these amazing gentlemen, krewasky salter and greg carr. doctor carr says a single account cannot capture the american experience in world war one, and what was meant for african americans in the decade afterwards. when the echoes were heard and the truman segregation order was put in place, the segregation decision of 1954, and the long battles of the 1960s to gain for black citizens the democracy for which all of those young men had died so long ago. although the war did not swing open the doors of enfranchisement for african americans, it could be said that it is sheer scale, the slap on the world's face of the first truly global war opened for us a new sense of our own potential, and possibilities. and thus, set into motion a increment