U.S. Army restores honor to Black soldiers hanged in Jim Crow-era South
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 25, 2024
The Veterans Cemetery at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, looks like many others – headstones with name, rank, dates of birth and death, and wars fought. Headstones that each tell a story. Until you reach the row in which headstones, including one for Angela Holder's great-uncle, Cpl. Jesse Moore, are memorialized only by a date: December 11, 1917.
"Ours don't have a story; they just have name and date of death," said Holder. "The first time I came here I touched the headstone and I said, 'Oh, man, this should not have happened . . .
