U.S. Army restores honor to Black soldiers hanged in Jim Crow-era South

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In 1917 in Houston, where the all-Black 24th Infantry Regiment was stationed, 110 soldiers were convicted following a race riot; 19 were sentenced to death and hanged. More than a century later, the Army has moved to make amends.

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