a group of African American soldiers were tasked with protecting vast stretches of land in the United States. These soldiers were known as the Buffalo Soldiers and a group of them helped protect ...

Interestingly, African American soldiers from this era were called “Buffalo Soldiers,” a term conferred upon them by Plains Indians in respect to the soldiers’ bravery and appearance that ...

Meet America’s Buffalo Soldiers—some of the nation’s first park rangers. On a clear fall day in California in 1903, a group of soldiers and civilians, both African American and Caucasian, gathered in ...

In 1884, Second Lieutenant Charles Young became just the third African American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Young distinguished himself as a soldier in the Ninth U.S.

Edward Nash, one of the Michigan Avenue pastors who was instrumental in founding the local NAACP and the Buffalo Urban ... the graves of the 14 African American Civil War soldiers buried there ...

Manley is among several Buffalo Soldiers buried at Tod Homestead ... The nickname soon became synonymous with all African-American regiments formed in 1866. Jones said he learned he had relatives ...

The Buffalo African American Community has many stories ... Tuesday, February 7, 2023 – Freedom is Not Free: Letters from African American WWII Soldiers to Rev. Nash (pastor of the Michigan ...