Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Soldiers of the 369th (15th N.Y.) who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action, 1919. When the war broke out, several African-Americans joined Allied armies. Most notably, Eugene Bullard and Bob Scanlon joined the French Foreign Legion within weeks of the start of the war.
The Last Outpost (1935 film) Lawrence of Arabia (film) The Light Between Oceans (film) Lingerie (film) The Little American. A Little Princess (1917 film) The Lone Eagle. The Lost Battalion (1919 film) The Lost Battalion (2001 film)
The Little American: Cecil B. DeMille: An American woman falls in love with both a German and French soldier A, D 1918 US Hearts of the World: D. W. Griffith: A young French couple are torn apart during the war A, D 1918 US My Four Years in Germany: William Nigh: A biopic of James W. Gerard, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany D 1918 US Shoulder ...
William Henry Johnson (circa July 15, 1892 – July 1, 1929), commonly known as Henry Johnson, [2] was a United States Army soldier who performed heroically in the first African American unit of the United States Army to engage in combat in World War I. [3] On watch in the Argonne Forest on May 14, 1918, he fought off a German raid in hand-to ...
Lynching of African-American veterans after World War I. Soldiers of the 369th (15th N.Y.) who won the Croix de guerre for gallantry in action, 1919. Colonel Hayward's "Hell Fighters" in parade. Black veteran L. B. Reed was suspected of having a relationship with a white woman and hanged over the Sunflower River Bridge, Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Colors of the 370th, with "(8th ILLS)" in banner fold. The 370th Infantry Regiment was the designation for one of the infantry regiments of the 93rd (Provisional) Infantry Division in World War I. Known as the "Black Devils", for their fierce fighting during the First World War and a segregated unit, it was the only United States Army combat unit with African-American officers.
This category is for African American civilians and soldiers during the World War I, as well as for battles and events that featured or significantly impacted African Americans, black regiments and military organizations, and similar articles.
The division was organized in October 1917, after the U.S. entry into World War I, at Camp Funston, Kansas, with African American soldiers from all states. In 1918, before leaving for France, the American buffalo was selected as the divisional insignia due to the "Buffalo Soldiers" nickname, given to African American cavalrymen in the 19th century.