{"id":275,"date":"2018-11-09T14:50:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T19:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2018-11-11T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T20:40:56","slug":"warming-the-hands-and-hearts-of-black-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-glass.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Warming the Hands\u2014and Hearts\u2014of Black Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

My great grandmother never missed an opportunity to support her race\u2014often going the extra mile to do so.\"us-knitting-poster\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When Americans were encouraged to knit items for the troops during World War I my great grandmother, Addie Jackson, and her daughters\u2014my grandmother Virginia and my aunt Marie\u2014knitted socks, scarves and gloves for the servicemen.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring World War I Americans of all ages were asked by the United States government to knit wool socks, sweaters, and other garments to warm American soldiers at home and abroad,\u201d an article on HistoryLink.org says.<\/p>\n

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Members of the 369th Infantry Regiment from Harlem, NY during World War I. My family knitted socks, gloves and scarves for the regiment and other black soldiers.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cOn Sundays in those days everyone would make a pair of socks and there\u2019d be at least four pairs of socks by the end of the day and gloves and scarves by the end of the week,\u201d my Aunt Marie said in a 1981 article published in the Tarrytown (N.Y.) Daily News.<\/p>\n

However, when Momma Addie discovered the black soldiers were not being sent these clothing items, she started a Red Cross chapter in her Tarrytown, NY home, and began knitting and sending scarves, gloves and socks to the black troops.<\/p>\n

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Young black girls in Hampton, Virginia knit scarves, socks and other items for the World War I troops.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe started the Red Cross in Tarrytown because it (the Red Cross) was segregated in those days,\u201d my grandmother told the Tarrytown newspaper. \u201cThey wouldn\u2019t take blacks and there were blacks fighting in the 369th<\/sup> Regiment. So mother started the Red Cross in our home.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 369th<\/sup> Infantry Regiment out of Harlem, NY had trained for battle in nearby Peekskill, NY, and my family knew some of its members. These were the black soldiers my great grandmother and her daughters had in mind when they started the Red Cross chapter in 1914.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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