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African Americans in World War I

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The list African Americans in World War I includes Needham Roberts, Freddie Stowers, Noble Sissle, Henry Johnson and Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.. The list consists of 78 members.
  • 1.

    Elbert Frank Cox
    American mathematician
    Elbert Frank Cox
    Overview: Elbert Frank Cox (5 December 1895 – 28 November 1969) was an American mathematician. He was the first African American to receive a PhD in Mathematics.
    Date of birth: 5 December 1895
    Date of death: 28 November 1969
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Mathematician
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    20th-century American educators 1,254T
    African-American mathematicians 66T
    20th-century American mathematicians 2,244T
  • 2.

    Freddie Stowers
    African-American US Army corporal and Medal of Honor recipient killed in action in WWI
    Freddie Stowers
    Overview: Freddie Stowers (January 12, 1896 – September 28, 1918) was an African-American corporal in the United States Army who was killed in action during World War I while serving in an American unit under ...
    Date of birth: 12 January 1896
    Date of death: 28 September 1918
    Age: 22 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Male
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    Military personnel from South Carolina 79T
    Burials at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial 6T
    African Americans in South Carolina 4T
  • 3.

    Eugene Bullard
    American boxer
    Eugene Bullard
    Overview: Eugene Jacques Bullard (October 9, 1895 – October 12, 1961), born Eugene James Bullard, was the first African-American military pilot. Bullard, who flew for France, was unquestionably one of the ...
    Date of birth: 9 October 1894
    Date of death: 12 October 1961
    Age: 67 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Boxing
    Gender: Male
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    Black aviators 10T
    African-American aviators 88T
    Death in New York City 81T
  • 4.

    Spencer Williams
    American actor
    Spencer Williams
    Overview: Spencer Williams (July 14, 1893 – December 13, 1969) was an American actor and filmmaker. He portrayed Andy on TV's The Amos 'n' Andy Show and directed films including the 1941 race film The Blood ...
    Date of birth: 14 July 1893
    Date of death: 13 December 1969
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
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    People from Vidalia, Louisiana 14T
    Film directors from Louisiana 17T
    Male actors from Louisiana 55T
  • 5.

    Needham Roberts
    Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
    Needham Roberts
    Overview: Needham Roberts (April 28, 1901 – April 18, 1949) was an American soldier in the Harlem Hellfighters and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Croix de Guerre for his valor during World War I.
    Date of birth: 28 April 1901
    Date of death: 18 April 1949
    Age: 47 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Military
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    Military personnel from New Jersey 140T
    369th Infantry Regiment personnel 7T
    Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France) 816T
  • 6.

    Malvin Gray Johnson
    American artist
    Malvin Gray Johnson
    Overview: Malvin Gray Johnson (January 28, 1896 – October 4, 1934) was an American painter, born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina.
    Date of birth: 28 January 1896
    Date of death: 1934
    Age: 37 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Artist
    Gender: Male
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    African-American painters 131T
    American male painters 3,659T
    20th-century American painters 4,629T
  • 7.

    Noble Sissle
    African-American jazz musician
    Noble Sissle
    Overview: Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921), and its hit song ...
    Date of birth: 10 July 1889
    Date of death: 17 December 1975
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Composer
    Gender: Male
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    Broadway composers and lyricists 196T
    American male jazz composers 567T
    Male jazz composers 994T
  • 8.

    Pearl Webster
    Negro League Baseball player
    Pearl Webster
    Overview: Pearl Franklyn Webster (July 8, 1889 – November 16, 1918), nicknamed "Specks", was an American baseball catcher and first baseman in the Negro leagues. He played from 1914 to 1918 with several teams.
    Date of birth: 8 July 1889
    Date of death: 16 November 1918
    Age: 29 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Baseball
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    Brooklyn Royal Giants players 128T
    Hilldale Club players 96T
    Bacharach Giants players 131T
  • 9.

    Aaron R. Fisher
    United States Army officer
    Aaron R. Fisher
    Overview: Aaron R. Fisher (May 14, 1895 – November 22, 1985) of Lyles Station, Indiana, served more than thirty years in the U.S. Army (1911–47) and was a recipient of several military awards, most notably the ...
    Date of birth: 14 May 1895
    Date of death: 22 November 1985
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Male
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    Year of death missing 14,093T
    Buffalo Soldiers 69T
    People from Indiana in World War I 39T
  • 10.

    Henry Alvin Cameron
    Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
    Henry Alvin Cameron
    Overview: Henry Alvin Cameron (February 4, 1872 – October 30, 1918) was an American schoolteacher who served as a United States Army officer in World War I. Prior to joining the military at age 45, he worked as ...
    Date of birth: 4 February 1872
    Date of death: 30 October 1918
    Age: 46 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Military
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    Schoolteachers from Tennessee 16T
    African-American schoolteachers 125T
    African-American military personnel 375T
  • 11.

    Lawrence A. Oxley
    American activist
    Overview: Lawrence A. Oxley (1887–1973) was one among 45 prominent black community leaders appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to what was called his Black Cabinet, positions in numerous executive ...
    Date of birth: 1887
    Date of death: 1973
    Age: 85 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
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    Black Cabinet 7T
    African-American history 166T
    Franklin D. Roosevelt administration personnel 139T
  • 12.

    Abram Lincoln Harris
    African-American economist and academic (1899–1963)
    Abram Lincoln Harris
    Overview: Abram Lincoln Harris, Jr. (January 17, 1899 – November 6, 1963) was an American economist, academic, anthropologist and a social critic of blacks in the United States. Considered by many as the first ...
    Date of birth: 17 January 1899
    Date of death: 6 November 1963
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Economist
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    Economists from Virginia 19T
    20th-century American economists 664T
    Academics from Virginia 19T
  • 13.

    Moses Hardy
    American Supercentenarian
    Moses Hardy
    Overview: Moses Hardy (January 6, 1894 – December 7, 2006) was, at age 112, the last surviving black veteran of World War I and one of the last surviving American veterans of that war. The son of former slaves ...
    Date of birth: 6 January 1894
    Date of death: 7 December 2006
    Age: 112 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Military
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    African-American centenarians 117T
    Last living survivors 49T
    Men supercentenarians 77T
  • 14.

    Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.
    United States Army general; First African American general officer in the U.S. Army and in the U.S. Military
    Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.
    Overview: Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. (July 1, 1877 – November 26, 1970) was a United States Army general. In 1940, he became the first African-American to rise to the rank of brigadier general. He was the father ...
    Date of birth: 1 July 1877
    Date of death: 26 November 1970
    Age: 93 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Male
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    United States Army generals of World War II 38T
    African Americans in World War II 9T
    Wilberforce University faculty 18T
  • 15.

    Jim Europe
    American musician and United States Army officer
    Jim Europe
    Overview: James Reese Europe (February 22, 1881 – May 9, 1919), sometimes known as Jim Europe, was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer. He was the leading figure on the African ...
    Date of birth: 22 February 1881
    Date of death: 9 May 1919
    Age: 38 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Composer
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    United States military musicians 21T
    Murdered American musicians 76T
    American ragtime mandolinists 2T
  • 16.

    Dox Thrash
    American artist
    Overview: Dox Thrash (1893–1965) was an African-American artist who was famed as a skilled draftsman, printmaker, and painter of African American life and as the co-inventor of the Carborundum printmaking process ...
    Date of birth: 1893
    Date of death: 1965
    Age: 71 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Artist
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    Federal Art Project artists 352T
    African-American artists 624T
    Federal Art Project 253T
  • 17.

    Henry Johnson
    United States Army soldier
    Henry Johnson
    Overview: William Henry Johnson (circa July 15, 1892 – July 1, 1929), commonly known as Henry Johnson, was a United States Army soldier who performed heroically in the first African American unit of the United States ...
    Date of birth: 15 July 1892
    Date of death: 1 July 1929
    Age: 36 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Male
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    Military personnel from North Carolina 103T
    Military personnel from Alexandria, Virginia 27T
    Military personnel from Albany, New York 41T
  • 18.
    Overview: Aileen Cole Stewart (1893-1997) was a prominent, pioneering African American United States Army Nurse Corps nurse during World War I.
    Date of birth: 1893
    Date of death: 1997
    Age: 103 (age at death)
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  • 19.

    Alan T. Busby
    African American educator
    Alan T. Busby
    Overview: Alan Thacker Busby (December 12, 1895 – June 10, 1992) was an American animal scientist and educator who taught at two historically black universities. He was the first African American to attend the ...
    Date of birth: 12 December 1895
    Date of death: 10 June 1992
    Age: 96 (age at death)
    Occupation: Military
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  • 20.

    Charles Herbert Garvin
    American physician
    Overview: Charles Herbert Garvin, M.D. (October 27, 1890 – July 17, 1968) was a prominent African-American physician, writer, and educator in Cleveland, Ohio. He published 26 papers for the Journal of the National ...
    Date of birth: 27 October 1890
    Date of death: 17 July 1968
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Doctor
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