Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 5d 4. There was the Brownsville Affair of 1906 where President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the dishonorable discharge of some 167 soldiers and denied them pensions or any civil service jobs for life. They wouldn't be pardoned until 1972
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5. But in 1944, 256 Black military men were court-martialed and convicted of various crimes, and 50 of them were charged with mutiny, and therefore sentenced to 15 years of hard prison labor. It was the biggest Mass Mutiny trial in US Naval history. What was their crime?