{"id":178,"date":"2015-11-06T22:21:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T03:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sablesoldiers.com\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2015-11-09T22:49:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T03:49:16","slug":"cape-verdean-draft-registrations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/pathway-to-citizenship\/cape-verdean-draft-registrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island Draft Registrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-248\" src=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/worldwar1poster1-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"worldwar1poster\" width=\"200\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/worldwar1poster1-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/worldwar1poster1.jpg 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Between 1917 and 1918, approximately 24 million men living in the United States completed a World War I draft registration card. Nearly 20% of those registration were foreign born men. Men were required to register for the draft regardless of their U.S. citizenship status.<br \/>\nDuring World War I, more than 192,000 immigrants acquired citizenship through military service, accounting for more than half of all naturalizations in the United States during that period.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-249\" src=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Poster-3-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"Poster 3\" width=\"200\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Poster-3-244x300.jpg 244w, https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Poster-3.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The following are from several historical databases of WWI Draft Registrations in the State of Rhode Island between 1917 and 1918. Extractions here include Cape Verdean, many being recent immigrants and African American men.\u00a0During the World War I era, Rhode Island was home to one of the largest Cape Verdean populations in America.\u00a0 Cape Verde is an archipelago\u00a0about 350 miles off the coast of West Africa and during the 17<sup>th<\/sup> and 18<sup>th<\/sup> centuries, it was a major connecting port between Africa and the New World.\u00a0 The Cape Verdean people are largely of mixed African and European ancestry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>View the list of Newport African American Draft Registrations between 1917 and 1918<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/African-American-WWI-Draft-Registrations.pdf\">African American WWI Draft Registrations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View the list of Cape Verdean Draft Registrations between 1917 and 1918.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cape-Verdean-WW-I-Draft.pdf\">Cape Verdean WW I Draft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1917 and 1918, approximately 24 million men living in the United States completed a World War I draft registration card. Nearly 20% of those registration were foreign born men. Men were required to register for the draft regardless of their U.S. citizenship status. During World War I, more than 192,000 immigrants acquired citizenship through &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/pathway-to-citizenship\/cape-verdean-draft-registrations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rhode Island Draft Registrations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":67,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions\/418"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/sablesoldiers\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}