STEVEN A. REICH is Associate Professor of History at James Madison University. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He was the 1998/1999 Summerlee Research Fellow at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University before coming to James Madison University. He is the author of "Soldiers of Democracy: Black Texans and the Fight for Citizenship, 1917-1921," which appeared in the Journal of American History in 1996 and won the Organization of American Historians' Louis M. Pelzer Memorial Award. He is currently completing a boo...