African American troops line up, National Archives The military's view toward African Americans during World War II reflected that of the wider American culture. According to a report commissioned ...

In honor of those who served their fellow injured or ill soldiers with compassion and courage while providing medical care, ...

In the lead up to and during World War II the military establishment continued to maintain that African-Americans soldiers were not as capable as their white counterparts and needed more intensive ...

Army G-4 SGM Edward Bell challenges Soldiers to not just honor the past, but to secure the future, at African American ...

Harris received full military honors and was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery. His funeral procession included a World War II Willys Jeep escort and a ... committed and unwavering," Bradley said.

He has often been identified as either Salem Poor or Peter Salem, two of the African American soldiers (sometimes conflated with one another) who are known to have served that day. It seems more ...

"Moreover, the only military unit that was commanded by an African-American before the Second World War", Domingo says. blacks, whites, Latinos and Jews fought together; there was no segregation.

It is believed to be the only village in the United States founded by formerly enslaved soldiers ... man labeled as the “most influential African American of the nineteenth century.” ...

ST. LOUIS – In a relentless rainstorm, a groundbreaking ceremony was held, attributing to the sacrifice of African American soldiers during the Civil War. “The troops could go out if our ...

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 ...

Harris received full military honors and was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery. His funeral procession included a World War II Willys Jeep ... “A true American.” U.S. Marine Corps veteran ...