Champagne - The 93rd Division in the Fight

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Listener discretion advised: This episode contains racial terms and themes that are considered highly offensive today. These terms and themes are being used here in the context of the First World War era.

Composed of African American National Guard units, volunteers and draftees, the 93rd Division (Provisional) was loaned to the French Army by an American Expeditionary Force that did not particularly care to have them.

These men faced danger and a struggle even before they faced the German enemy--that of the dangers of racist violence back home in the U.S. and discrimination on the Western Front.

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0:00.0	This is the crisis of the world.
0:08.1	We of the colored race have no ordinary interest in the outcome.
0:14.3	That which the German power represents today spells death to the aspirations of Negroes and all darker races for equality, freedom, and democracy.
0:26.9	Let us not hesitate.
0:32.1	W.E. B. Du Bois
0:34.6	American civil rights activists.
0:37.8	Excerp from his editorial, The Crisis, July 1918. Listener discretion advised.
1:02.1	This episode contains racial terms and themes that are considered highly offensive today.
1:08.7	Please note, these terms and themes are being used here in the context of the First World War era.
1:19.2	Hey folks, welcome to the battles of the First World War audio a la demand.
1:25.9	Episode 64, Champagne, the 93rd division in the fight.
1:33.1	Audio a la demand is how the French government would prefer we call this medium known in English
1:39.2	as a podcast.
1:46.9	Okay, let's start with the admin.
1:48.6	Shoutouts.
1:52.7	This episode, they go to Allison and Stewart,
1:55.7	who gave a very generous gift to the podcast,
1:59.2	and we are, as always, grateful for the support.
2:05.4	Thank you so very much. The second part of our admin brief, listener Todd wrote in with a request. His request is to put eyes on a large
2:13.2	volunteer World War I project currently underway that needs more volunteers.
2:22.0	Volunteers at Zuniverse are entering data from the burial cards of U.S. servicemen and women
2:28.8	that died during the war. The goal is to create a searchable database that can be used by ancestors,
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