Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 5d 2. Black military men were treated extremely badly through most of America's military history. That's no secret. You may be familiar with the Houston Buffalo soldiers during WWI who were hung after an incident at Camp Logan
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3. Then of course there was the Fort Pillow Massacre during the Civil War when Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest allowed the executions of some 200+ Black soldiers who had surrendered but not allowed the "dignity" of capture or trial