(POSTER) Our Colored Heroes

Sale 1926 - Lot 253

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WINNERS OF THE CROIX DE GUERRE FOR BRAVERY(POSTER.) Our Colored Heroes. Chromolithographed uplift poster, 16x20 inches; several small closed tears at edges. Chicago: Renesch, 1918

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Depicts a famous incident of World War I. "Before daylight on May 15, Pte. Henry Johnson and Pte. (Needham) Roberts, while on sentry duty at some distance from one another, were attacked by a German raiding party estimated at twenty men, who advanced in two groups attacking at once from flank and rear. Both men fought bravely in hand-to-hand encounters, one resorting to the use of a bolo knife after his rifle jammed . . ." (from General Pershing's communique). Johnson was credited with killing at least four Germans and wounding ten. While both men were awarded the Croix de Guerre for bravery by the French government, the United States ignored them. Johnson, who had suffered serious wounds during the encounter was unable to find work after the war.<