Colored Troops, Treatment of Black POWs, and more. It includes topics such as Preserving the Legacy of the U.S. The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War This is a NARA Teaching with Documents lesson on Colored Troops during the Civil War. "Face to Face with History" Prologue article by Jill L. "Exploring the Life and History of the 'Buffalo Soldiers'" Walter Hill, author of this article in The Record, and an archivist at NARA, writes about the black military presence during the Civil War period, and after the war, when the members of the 10th Calvary acquired the name "Buffalo Soldiers" during the 1871 campaign against the Comanche Indians. "Documenting African-Americans in the Records of Military Agencies" An article by Lisha Penn from the Summer 1997 issue of the NARA publication Prologue.Įxecutive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948) This site provides a digitized image of Executive Order 9981, a transcript, and a discussion of the document and its background. Truman Library provides finding aids to documents relating to the desegration of U.S. Reidy appeared in the Fall 2001 issue of the NARA publication Prologue.ĭesegregation of the Armed Forces: Archival Materials at the Library This site from the Harry S. NARA Resources "Black Men in Navy Blue during the Civil War" This article by Joseph P. Military Resources: Blacks in the Military
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