secretaries, there being a special and highly efficient Negro branch of the Y.M.C.A.
Numerous others were attached to the War Camp Community Service in cities adjacent to the army camps.
Negro nurses were authorized by the war department for service in base hospitals at six army camps--Funston, Sherman, Grant, Dix, Taylor and Dodge.

Race women also served as canteen workers in France and in charge of hostess houses in this country.
One Negro, Ralph W.Tyler, served as an accredited war correspondent, attached to the staff of General Pershing, Dr.R.R.Moton, who succeeded the late Booker T.Washington as head of the Tuskegee Institute, was sent on a special mission to France by President Wilson and Secretary Baker.
A race woman, Mrs.Alice Dunbar Nelson of Wilmington, Delaware, was named as a field worker to mobilize the Negro women of the country for war work.

Her activities were conducted in connection with the Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense.
The most conspicuous honor paid to a Negro by the administration and the war department, was in the appointment, October 1, 1917, of Emmett J.
Scott as special assistant to the Secretary of War.

This was done that the administration might not be accused of failing to grant full protection to the Negroes, and that a thorough examination might be made into all matters affecting their relation to the war and its many agencies.
Having been for 18 years confidential secretary to Booker T.Washington, and being at the time of his appointment secretary of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute for Negroes, Mr.Scott was peculiarly fitted to render necessary advice to the war department with respect to the Negroes of the various states, to look after all matters affecting the interests of Negro selectives and enlisted men, and to inquire into the treatment accorded them by the various officials connected with the war department.

In the position occupied by him, he was thus enabled to obtain a proper perspective both of the attitude of selective service officials to the Negro, and of the Negro to the war, especially to the draft.