black soldiers
African-American military personnel
Black soldiers refers to military personnel of African descent, particularly in historical contexts discussing segregated units or the fight for equal treatment in armed forces.
The term appears frequently in discussions of the American Civil War, both World Wars, and the civil rights era: Black soldiers served with distinction despite facing discrimination within the military.
The Buffalo Soldiers were black cavalry regiments formed after the Civil War.
- buffaloLarge North American bovine
- regimentColonel-led military unit
- TuskegeeAlabama HBCU town
- infantryGround combat troops
- segregatedForcibly kept separate
cavalry · Union · Civil War · veterans · war heroes · combat · military · troops · airmen · valor · service · discrimination · medals · barracks · uniforms · patriotism · sacrifice · enlistment
- Military Diversityminority recruitment, minority representation, ethnic diversity, diversity goals, minority leadership
- Black WWI SoldiersAfrican American troops, Croix de Guerre, combat valor, stevedores, combat engineers