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 ...

Listen to a short summary Read by Stephanie M. Your browser does not support the audio element.Cathay Williams was a brave ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

making him the first African-American to be put in charge of a national park. Under Acting Superintendent Young's leadership, the Buffalo Soldiers kept the park free from poachers, and from the ...

Here's how to contact us securely. The Central Coast has a long history of African American soldiers making a big impact on the local history. Buffalo Soldiers were some of the first African ...