FIGHTING FOR RESPECT:

African-American Soldiers in WWI

This article describes the treatment of African Americans from April 1917, when the U.S. declared war against Germany, through the fall of 1919. The article follows the treatment of African Americans from enlistment/draft process through training, fighting, and return from service.

Source:

Army History online

By Jami L. Bryan; Article date not stated.

https://armyhistory.org/fighting-for-respect-african-american-soldiers-in-wwi/

A Century Later, 17 Wrongly Executed Black Soldiers

Are Honored at Grave Sites

More than a century ago, 110 Black soldiers were convicted of murder, mutiny and other crimes at three military trials held at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. Nineteen were hanged, including 13 on a single day, Dec. 11, 1917, in the largest mass execution of American soldiers by the Army.

The soldiers’ families spent decades fighting to show that the men had been betrayed by the military. In November, they won a measure of justice when the Army secretary, Christine E. Wormuth, overturned the convictions and acknowledged that the soldiers “were wrongly treated because of their race and were not given fair trials.”

Source:

By Michael Levenson

Published Feb. 22, 2024; Updated Feb. 23, 2024, 9:32 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/army-black-soldiers-fort-sam-houston-cemetery.html