When on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: "I'm an Am
When the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African-American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only limited civil ri
The 369th Infantry Regiment was the first African American regiment mustered to fight in World War I. In a war where the vast majority of black soldiers served
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