More than 1,000 Black soldiers trained to become officers at Fort Des Moines during WWI. This year, the Iowa Historical ...

there was no need for support from African American women. And racial barriers prevented them from performing those tasks for white males. Finally in 1944-45, pressure from organizations outside the ...

Another military rule that was bent was the ... the photograph was particularly important for African American soldiers. The two men had been photographed as equals, working together to beat ...

However military leaders believed that African-Americans ... ever to serve in an American war. There was a marked turnaround from the attitude in previous wars that black men were not fit for ...

On Friday at 7:00 PM there will be a screening of an army recruitment film called The Black Soldier and a discussion ...