News Article Assignment: America, Experiences After the WWI

America and WWI
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America in the WWI
For most of us the First World War is a story we read in the news and the history memoirs of the events that led to the war, who won, but most importantly the experiences of the people. There are profound experiences that took place before and after the First World War touching on the community. There are events that took place before the 28th of July 1914 and 11th November 1918 when the war fought (Williams, 2016). Although the war started off as a distant European endeavor, it slowly escalated into a revolutionary event with impacts on the social, economic, and political aspects implicating on all local communities, African American men, women, southerners, northerners, civilians and soldiers alike (Williams, 2016). Events such as racial violence, military service, political protests and migration among others combine to make the war time the most revolutionary time in the history of America. When the war first broke out in Europe, most of the people did not see the reason to get involved (Williams, 2016). For the African Americans at the time and before the war, they were still treated as second class citizens (Ruff, 2016). Some were still serving their masters, especially in the southern states where aspects of slavery were still rife. Later on, there was a massive migration that took place from the time the war started, as African Americans from the south to the north (Williams, 2016). Most of them lived in dire poverty at the time and the war brought about new opportunities, as the war cut off the migration of the Europeans to America. Local businesses and companies now had to search for the African Americans coming in from the south for cheap labor (Williams, 2016).
While much of the war changed the status of most of the African Americans, there were still intrins...