by MariaLQuintanaPhD | Jan 25, 2007 | African American History, Events
Image Ownership: Public Domain By the time the U.S. entered World War I, black soldiers and white Texas civilians had a history of hostile relations dating back more than fifty years. At Camp Logan, men with the Third Battalion of the 24th U.S. Infantry...
by MikellRobert | Jan 22, 2007 | African American History, Events
The events of the Phoenix Thanksgiving Day Riot began on Thanksgiving, November 27, 1942. An off-duty soldier from the all-black 364th Negro Infantry Regiment became drunk at the Alhambra Bar, located at the corner of 12th & Washington Streets in Phoenix. A black...
by SullivanErin | Jan 21, 2007 | African American History, People
Marquette Frye, whose arrest sparked the Watts Riots in 1965, was born in Oklahoma but grew up in rural Hanna, Wyoming. The family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1957, when Marquette was 13. By the age of 16, Marquette was struggling to adjust to the ghetto and...
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