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Notes Abbreviations ADN Alice Dunbar-Nelson Papers, Box 6, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Del. ALC/JWJC James Weldon Johnson Collection, Series II, Grace Nail Johnson Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. MCT Papers Mary Church Terrell Papers, Library of Congress, Washington , D.C. NAACP Administrative Files Papers of NAACP, Part 1, Meetings of the Board of Directors, Records of Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and Special Reports, 1909–1950 (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1981), microfilm NAACP/NWP Papers of the NAACP, Part 11, Special Subject Files, 1912– 1939, Series B, Harding, Warren G. through YWCA Editorial Advisor (Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1990), microfilm NACW Papers Records of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, 1895–1992, ed. Lillian Serece Williams (Bethesda, Md.: University Publications of America, 1993), microfilm Records of the YMCA and USA Records of the YMCA and USA Armed Services Division, Armed Services Division Kautz Family YMCA Archives, Special Collections, Elmer L. Anderson Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. SLR Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. TNCF Tuskegee Institute News Clipping Files WC Central Correspondence Box 512, Folder 131, Records of the Committee of Women ’s Defense Work, Records of the Council of National Defense, Record Group 62, National Archives Records Administration II, College Park, Md. WC Monthly Reports Committee on Women’s Defense Work of the Council of National Defense, Weekly and Monthly Reports, Records of the Committee on Women’s Defense Work, Records of the Council of National Defense, Record Group 62, National Archives Records Administration II, College Park, Md. WC Minutes Committee on Women’s Defense Work of the Council of National Defense, Minutes, Box 570, Records of the Committee on Women’s Defense Work, Records of the Council of National Defense, Record Group 62, National Archives Record Administration II, College Park, Md. YWCA Colored Work Records of the YMCA Colored Work Department, Kautz Department Kautz Family YMCA Archives, Elmer L. Anderson Library , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. YWCA Papers, SSC YWCA National Board Records, Sophia Smith Collection , Smith College Library, Smith College, Northampton , Mass. 1. Patriotism and Jim Crow 1. Mary B. Talbert, “Concerning the Frederick Douglass Memorial,” The Crisis 14 (August 1917): 167–168; National Association of Colored Women, 11th Biennial Convention Minutes, July 1918, Records of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, 1895– 1992, ed. Lillian Serece Williams (Bethesda, Md.: University Publications of America, 1993), 7 (hereafter cited as NACW Papers); Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, Lifting as They Climb (Washington, D.C.: National Association of Colored Women, 1933), 60–61, 78–82, 87; Tulia Brown Hamilton, “The National Association of Colored Women, 1896–1920” (Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 1978), 63–64. 2. Francis J. Grimke to the National Association of Colored Women, Washington, D.C., 1 July 1918, Talbert Family Papers, Erie County Historical Society, Buffalo, N.Y. 3. “Nearly Ten Thousand Take Part in Big Silent Protest Parade Down Fifth Avenue,” New York Age, 2 August 1917, in Tuskegee Institute News Clipping Files, reel 6, heading “Riots” (hereafter cited as TNCF, with reel number and heading title). 4. “Negroes in Parade to Protest Riots,” Brooklyn Eagle, 29 July 1917, in TNCF, reel 6, heading “Riots”; Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “The East St. Louis Massacre: The Greatest Outrage of the Century” (Chicago: Negro Fellowship Herald Press, n.d. [probably 1917]), in Federal Surveillance of Afro-Americans 1917–1925, ed. Theodore Kornweibel (Frederick, Md.: University Microfilms of America, 1985), reel 10, subject heading “East St. Louis”; Federal Surveillance of Afro-Americans, reel 19, subject heading “Ida B. Wells Barnett,” 6; James Waldon Johnson, Black Manhattan (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940; reprint New York: Arno Press, 1969), 236–239. 5. “Federal Surveillance of Northeastern Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs,” 20 January 1918, in Federal Surveillance of Afro-Americans, reel 10, subject heading “East St. Louis” (italics in original). 6. “Women’s Club Notes,” Half-Century Magazine, August 1917, 10. 7. Theodore Kornweibel, Investigate Everything: Federal Efforts to Compel Black Loyalty during World War I (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004), 5, 1–6; Mark Ellis, “‘Closing Ranks’ and ‘Seeking Honors’: W.E.B. Du Bois in World War I,” Journal of American History 79, no. 1 (June 1992): 98, 96–124. See also: William Jordan, “‘The Damnable Dilemma’ African-American Accommodation and Protest during World War I,” Journal of American History 81, no. 4 (March 1995): 1562–1583; Theodore Kornweibel, No Crystal Stair: Black Life and The Messenger...

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