The May 1, 1863 New York Tribune summed up many Northerners' feelings about African American soldiers when it declared, "Loyal Whites have generally become willing that they should fight ...

These are the first soldiers back that really fought on the firing line. The parade was fine...Mother, Aunt Sadie...and myself went." The diary of African American teenager Jessie Greer ...

Despite policies of racial segregation and discrimination, African-American soldiers played a significant role from the colonial period to the Korean War. It wasn't until the middle of the 20th ...

Chad Williams, the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Chair in History and the author of “Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era,” sat down with BrandeisNow to discuss ...

B enjamin O. Davis Senior’s career started during a time when society and, more so the military, did not think highly of African American soldiers. Becoming an officer would have been nearly ...

The commander of the American Expeditionary Force, General John Pershing had refused to lead black soldiers into battle. Most of the third of a million African Americans drafted into the US Army ...

YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – In the 19th and early 20th centuries, a group of African American soldiers were tasked with protecting vast stretches of land in the United States. These soldiers ...

The experience of African American soldiers in Europe in WW1. videoThe experience of African American soldiers in Europe in WW1 Historian David Olusoga examines the racial prejudice experienced by ...

And just as equally interesting and contrary to most portrayals of the west, exactly half of the soldiers at Fort Concho were African American, starting in 1869 up to 1885. Black men had served in ...

Charles Young was the third African American to graduate from West Point ... Ninth U.S. Cavalry and 10th U.S. Cavalry, the Buffalo Soldiers. Photograph by Everett Collection Historical, Alamy ...