MAKAPANSTAD - There's very little said about the black soldiers who were part of the South African army to fight in World War 1. Over 600 black soldiers lost their lives in the sinking of the SS ...
National Army Museum Kinsey Gidick For enslaved Black Americans living ... and its colonies. Soldiers from a West India Regiment in their camp in France during World War I Public domain via ...
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT #1: (Reading in French). BEARDSLEY: One by one, the kids read out the testimony of one of the many African soldiers who fought and often died ...
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT #1: (Reading in French). BEARDSLEY: One by one, the kids read out the testimony of one of the many African soldiers ... Some 350,000 soldiers ...
Black soldiers faced discrimination as well as segregation. The army was extremely reluctant to commission black officers -- only one hundred gained commissions during the war. African American ...