After six years and three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Corey Michael Hadley returned home to Philadelphia in 2013. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] As an Army rifleman in a leadership role, Mr. Hadley had spent many days traveling door to door to root out armed militia members and terrorists who had sworn to kill Americans. […]
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African-American GIs and German Radicals: An Unexpected Alliance | JSTOR Daily
In December 1969, radical German students reached out to the increasingly politicized black GIs. Together, they organized a series of rallies and teach-ins at German universities.
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Fighting Germans and Jim Crow: Role of Black Troops on D-Day | Military.com
BATON ROUGE, La. — It was the most massive amphibious invasion the world has ever seen, with tens of thousands of Allied troops spread out across the air and sea aiming to get a toehold in Normandy for the final assault on Nazi Germany. And while portrayals of D-Day often depict an all-white host of […]
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We Did It, They Hid It: How Memorial Day Was Stripped Of Its African American Roots | Black Then
What we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipationand commemorate those who died for that cause. These days, Memorial Day is arranged as a day “without politics”—a general patriotic celebration of all soldiers […]
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West Point gets 1st black superintendent in 216-year history | Army Times
The Associated Press, Army Times [dropcap]WEST[/dropcap] POINT, N.Y. — Lt. Gen. Darryl A. Williams, a 1983 U.S. Military Academy graduate who has held high-ranking Army posts in Europe and Asia, will become the first black officer to command West Point in its 216-year history, academy officials announced Friday. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Williams will assume command as […]
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Harlem Hellfighters: The black soldiers who brought jazz to Europe | BBC
Video by Jane O’Brien and Bill McKenna, BBC [dropcap]World[/dropcap] War One brought many social changes – not least, the introduction of jazz to Europe. Thanks to a black American regiment of musicians called the Harlem Hellfighters, the French discovered the joys of syncopation. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] More than a century on, US musician Jason Moran is […]
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Africans Played Key, Often Unheralded, Role in World War I | The Afro American
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Amid the fanfare marking the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, little has been said about crucial participants in the conflict: Africans.
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Black WWII veteran from Charleston faced bombs abroad, prejudice at home | The Post Courier
Surgery scars on his knees are the legacy of World War II for Julian Snipe. A mine exploded in Germany, destroying the ammo supply truck he was walking alongside. He woke on the ground in the bitter cold and couldn’t feel his legs. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Snipe joined the Army in 1942 as an 18-year-old. He […]
View MoreHow Black World War I vets shaped the civil rights movement | Futurity
The hundreds of thousands of African Americans who served in the US Army during World War I and returned home as heroes soon faced many more battles over their equality in American society, according to historian Chad Williams.
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Frank E. Petersen, First Black General in Marines, Dies at 83 | The New York Times
Frank E. Petersen Jr., who suffered bruising racial indignities as a military enlistee in the 1950s and was even arrested at an officers’ club on suspicion of impersonating a lieutenant, but who endured to become the first black aviator and the first black general in the Marine Corps, died on Tuesday at his home in Stevensville, Md., near Annapolis. He was 83.
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