Jim Gifford – Hidden heroism: Black Soldiers in America’s Wars | Opinion
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 16, 2024
February is Black History Month, and the Jesse Stuart Foundation recognizes the contributions of generations of African Americans with my review of “Hidden Heroism” by Robert Edgerton. This book investigates the history of African-American participation in American wars, from the French and Indian Wars to the present.
Edgerton chronicles Black heroism in every U.S. conflict since the Revolutionary War, recalling the little-known Buffalo Soldiers and the black cavalry that saved Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders in Cuba and a pantheon of black heroes — obscure and famous — from Benjamin Banneker to Colin Powell. Edgerton also . . .
