https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/sahil-chinoy/Sahil ChinoyHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/vanguard-black-veterans-and-civil-rights-after-world-war-i/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/vanguard-black-veterans-and-civil-rights-after-world-war-i/<p>This paper provides the first causal evidence on how military service shaped Black civil rights activism in the aftermath of World War I. The research question is whether random induction into the segregated National Army caused Black men to join the nascent NAACP and become prominent community leaders during the New Negro era. The authors leverage the WWI draft lottery — in which each registrant&rsquo;s unique serial number was drawn from a bowl to determine induction order — as an instrument for military service, a source of exogenous variation not previously exploited in the literature.</p>