The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War

Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like everyone else. They saw fighting heroically in the trenches as their chance to achieve this. In 1918, the 15th New York National Guard Regiment became the most highly decorated unit of the First World War.

Cast for The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War...

Philippe Baudoin
Musicologist, Jazz Historian