Interspersed with these images are the lived experiences of Master Sergent Eugene Boyer, Sr., a veteran of World War II and Korea, and that of Staff Sargent Lance Woods, 60 years Boyer’s junior ...

The struggle of African Americans to achieve some semblance of equality in the military is the theme of a new exhibit in New Orleans. “Fighting for the Right to Fight” opens July 4 at the ...

This despite the fact that among the 16 million U.S. soldiers who fought in World War II, there were about one million African-American soldiers. They fought in the Pacific, and they were part of ...

ST. PETERSBURG —The history of African-Americans in World War II is often told through the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, intrepid pilots like Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who became the first black ...

African-American soldiers played a significant role in World War II. More than half a million served in Europe. Despite the numbers they faced racial discrimination: prior to the war the military ...

How Black Philadelphians Fought for Soldiers During World War I. Since the colonial era, in times of peace and war, the African American experience of inequality included being denied medical ...

The Black Newtonians in World War II exhibit at the Newton Free Library highlights the courage of local Black servicemen in the global conflict.. The exhibit reminds visitors of the discrimination ...

Charles Lewis was glad to be home. One hundred years ago on Nov. 11, a date now commemorated as Veteran’s Day — which will be observed on Monday, Nov. 12, in 2018 — the Great War came to an ...

For more than a century, from 1857 to 1960, soldiers from Africa fought for France in African colonial wars, in the trenches of World War I, in the World War II campaign to defeat the Nazis and in ...