Brownsville affair
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The Brownsville affair, or the Brownsville raid, was an incident of racial discrimination that occurred in 1906 in the Southwestern United States due to resentment by white residents of Brownsville, T
Fort Brown, where the 25th Infantry were stationed at the time of the Brownsville affair
Soldier of the 25th Infantry (photo c. 1884–90)
Court martial of Major Penrose, February 1907
Buffaloes. 367th Infantry, troops return colors to Union League Club. Men draw . . . NARA 533590
Woodrow Wilson and race
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Woodrow Wilson was a prominent American scholar who served as president of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, as governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, and as the 28th president of the United
Wilson speaking at the dedication ceremony for the Confederate Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, 1914
World War I draft card, the lower left corner to be removed by men of African background to help keep the military segregated
German propaganda targeting African American troops in World War I
Misquotation from Wilson's History of the American People as reproduced in the film The Birth of a Nation.