World War I was in many ways the beginning of the 20th-century civil rights movement. The war created opportunities for African Americans to demand their civil rights, in and outside of the Army.

What can Americans learn 100 years later from the belated entry of the United States into World War I, and from the war’s beginning, conduct, and aftermath? Seemingly isolated incidents — such ...

1914-Beginning of World War I. 1916-Riots in Yorubaland (Nigeria) over taxation. 1917-Russian Revolution. 1918-End of World War I. 1919-1st Pan-African Congress meets in London, Paris & Brussels.

A war to end all wars' The First World War was the first truly global conflict – the battle raged not just in the trenches of the Western Front but in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.