The Brownsville Redemption

<p><strong>What Happened That Night in Brownsville?</strong></p><p>In 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt discharged without honor 167 soldiers of the all-Black 25th Infantry stationed in Brownsville Texas. The men were accused of shooting up the town the midnight of August 13. A white man was killed and another seriously wounded.</p><p>Everyone presumed the soldiers were guilty. So when no one among them would confess to the crime Roosevelt accused the entire group of a conspiracy of silence and refused them a trial. By executive order he doomed them to lives of shame and degradation.</p><p>But these were the celebrated Buffalo Soldiers of Western folklore. They had fought with Roosevelt in Cuba during the Spanish-American War and helped him capture San Juan and Kettle hills the feats that made him a national hero. And now they were summarily dismissed without evidence?</p><p>In 1972 66 years after the Brownsville Incident occurred <em>Lt. Col. (Ret) William Baker</em> finally solved the mystery of the soldiers' guilt or innocence.</p><p><em>William Baker's riveting narrative rips the scab off one of the most disgraceful episodes of racism in the annals of the American military... </em>Harold Holzer</p><p><em>More than an expertly written history this volume is a fascinating chronicle of a military man's 'quest for justice.'</em> Henry Louis Gates Jr.</p><p><em>A remarkable tale of courage persistence and conviction.</em> Tweed Roosevelt</p>