Blacks in Uniform: From Bunker Hill to Desert Storm

摘要

Gail lumet buckley's new history of black Americans in the military, "American Patriots," be-gan with an old photograph of handsome officer in World War I. She ame across the photo almost two decades go while researching her family history, The Hornes" (the singer Lena Horne is her nother). But who was this good-looking treat-Uncle Errol? It turned out that he was career military man, one of the Buffalo Soldiers (all-black regiments) who helped phase Pancho Villa and then went to Europe with the American Expeditionary Force during World War I.