WWIera
TOPEKA — Academy Award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker Kevin Willmott welcomed the U.S. Army’s decision to set aside courts-martial convictions of 110 Black soldiers, including 19 executed for involvement in World War I-era race rioting in Houston. Willmott, a professor of film at University of Kansas, released “The 24th” in 2020 to shed light on injustices […]
The US Army on Monday announced it is setting aside the “unfair” convictions of 110 Black soldiers who were court martialed over 1917 unrest in Houston, Texas. The soldiers — who were guarding the site where a military camp was being constructed — took up arms following months of racial abuse, discrimination and assaults and […]
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