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The Houston race riot of 1917, also known as the Camp Logan Mutiny, [1] [2] was a mutiny and riot by 156 soldiers from the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, taking place on August 23, 1917, in Houston, Texas.
The Houston Riot of 1917 was an alleged mutiny by 156 black soldiers of the 24th Infantry; [4] it has been called the Camp Logan Riots. Sergeant Vida Henry of I Company, 3rd Battalion led about 150 black soldiers in a two-hour march on Houston because they had suffered racial discrimination in the city. The soldiers were met by local policemen ...
The 24th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the United States Army that was inactivated in October 1996. Formed during World War II from the disbanding Hawaiian Division, the division saw action throughout the Pacific theater, first fighting in New Guinea before landing on the Philippine islands of Leyte and Luzon, driving Japanese forces from them.
The 24th is based on the true story of the Houston riot of 1917. The film features an African American (A.K.A. Buffalo Soldiers) military unit, the 24th Infantry Regiment in Houston, Texas. Despite their military service, the African American soldiers are subjected to racial discrimination by the all-white police force in Houston as well as ...
On 28 March 1941, the body of Private Felix "Poss" Hall was found hanged in a shallow ravine near what is now Logan Avenue. [37] Born 1 January 1922, in Millbrook, Alabama, he enlisted in the Army in August 1940. He was assigned to serve in the 24th Infantry Regiment at Fort Benning, an all-Black segregated unit formed after the Civil War. Two ...
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Taro leaf insignia of the 24th Infantry Division. This is a list of commanders of the 24th Infantry Division of the United States Army, which was activated in 1941. [1] It was inactive from 1957 to 1958, 1970 to 1975, 1996 to 1999, and since 2006. [1] The 24th Division's antecedents were known as the Hawaiian Division, which existed from 1921 ...
The 190th Infantry Brigade, previously assigned to the 95th Infantry Division, became the 3rd Brigade, 24th Infantry Division. [ 3 ] The division remained in Germany ( Augsburg , Munich) until September 1968 when it redeployed 1st and 2nd Brigades Fort Riley , Kansas , as part of Exercise REFORGER (Return of Forces to Germany) while 3rd Brigade ...