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August 13th

1 event recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1906
    The Record

    Brownsville affair

    A shooting in Brownsville, Texas leaves one white man dead and two wounded. Without trial, President Theodore Roosevelt dishonorably discharges all 167 Black soldiers of the 25th Infantry stationed at Fort Brown. In 1972 the Army reverses the discharges; only one soldier, Dorsie Willis, is still alive to receive it.

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