american-nostalgia:

Harlem “Hellfighter” of the famed 369th Regiment greets an admirer during a 1919 victory parade. Some 400,000 African Americans became World War I soldiers. Among them were the first two Americans to win the Croix de Guerre, both infantrymen of the 369th.

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    I have always wondered how the Hellfighters felt as they marched up Fifth avenue past the rows of staring white faces,...

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    They ask you to fight when you still can’t vote

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