The success of the formation of the all black female battalion was thanks to Mary McLeod Bethune, an African American civil rights activist who at the time, appealed to the then-first lady of America, Eleanor Roosevelt, to create more meaningful roles for black women in the army to help balance out the shortage of soldiers.
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Opinion: How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women | The New York Times
Its worst offenses may be that it rendered nearly invisible the black women who labored in the suffragist vineyard and that it looked away from the racism that tightened its grip on the fight for the women’s vote in the years after the Civil War.
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Art installation honors African-American military role during Civil War | The DC Line
Museum’s 20th anniversary celebration highlights art’s role in highlighting historical understanding.
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Black female pilot makes history in Alabama National Guard | Stars & Stripes
Freeman’s aviator wings were pinned by retired Col. Christine Knighton, the second black woman in the Department of Defense to earn aviator wings and the first from Georgia.
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A Century Later, a Little-Known Mass Hanging of Black Soldiers Still Haunts Us | The Progressive
“The riot was a problem created by community policing in a hostile environment. It’s up to people now to decide whether there are lessons relevant to the present.” – Paul Matthews, founder of Houston’s Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
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The Harlem Hellfighters: African-American WWI heroes | New York Amsterdam News
Despite overt racism in their own country, the all-Black 369th Infantry Regiment of the 93rd Division, nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters, fought alongside Caucasian Frenchmen in the trenches, some even wearing French uniforms.
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The overlooked story of 104 African American doctors who fought in World War I | The Washington Post
By the time Louis T. Wright headed to France as an Army doctor, he was accustomed to discrimination — and accustomed to fighting it.
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First Black woman to lead West Point’s Corps of Cadets | The Philadelphia Tribune
A Fairfax, Va. woman has become the first African-American woman to lead West Point’s Corps of Cadets, the U.S. Army announced.
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African Americans in the armed forces – in pictures – The Guardian
From the civil war to Iraq, African Americans have played a key role in the US military.
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Three African American Civil War vets to be relocated, buried at Fort Indiantown Gap National Cemetery
Three Cumberland County men who died after serving our country were buried in the forgotten remnants of an overgrown cemetery, their stories lost in the woods and in the pages of history.
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