| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Race, War, and Surveillance: African Americans and the United States Government during World War I. By Mark Ellis. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. xxii, 325 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-253-33923-5.)

Building on a thorough mastery of federal archival materials, Mark Ellis chronicles the reactions of federal intelligence officials to African Americans during World War I. Ellis shows how they regularly misinterpreted legitimate dissent as subversive disloyalty fomented by German propaganda and sought to limit all but the most conservative black politics. Ellis works chronologically from debates in the spring of 1917 about African American men and the Selective Service Act through wartime surveillance of the black press and ends with federal efforts to block African American participation in the Versailles peace conference, telling a disheartening story, and a familiar one, but one that has rarely been told with such care. . . .

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