The Compton resident was a member of the 'Triple Nickles,' a World War II combat-ready unit who trained as some of America's ...

One of three Black Watch soldiers tragically killed in a suicide bomb attack in Iraq's 'triangle of death' did not believe in the war, his brother has revealed. Private Paul Lowe, aged 19 ...

But only two Medals of Honor were awarded to the 350,000 black soldiers of World War I—both of them posthumously—and none at all during World War II, in which more than 125,000 black soldiers ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

The commander of the American Expeditionary Force, General John Pershing had refused to lead black soldiers into battle. Most of the third of a million African Americans drafted into the US Army ...

In 1997, Woodson was on the shortlist for the Medal of Honor when the first Black World War II soldiers were honored by President Bill Clinton. At the time, Woodson was not selected because of ...

He was born enslaved in 1745 in nearby Chelmsford, Massachusetts. And when the Revolutionary War broke out a few decades later, he became one of the area’s Black soldiers fighting for the American ...

Karl Puckett [email protected] The memorial highlighting the area’s Black Civil War soldiers is planned for a prominent gateway on Boundary Street in a city where generations of Black ...

These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops, made up one-tenth of the fighting forces for the Union Army. Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War ...