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August 23rd

1 event recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1917
    The Record

    Houston mutiny

    After months of harassment by Houston police, Black soldiers of the 24th Infantry Regiment march on the city. Sixteen white civilians and four Black soldiers die. The Army holds the largest court-martial in American history; nineteen soldiers are hanged, mostly without appeal, and forty-one are sentenced to life in prison.

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