History's Mysteries, "Discharged Without Honor - The Brownsville Raid"
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History's Mysteries, "Discharged Without Honor - The Brownsville Raid"
Just before midnight on August 13, 1906, unknown men stormed through the streets of Brownsville, Texas, blasting bullets into saloons and homes, killing one man and injuring another. It was a reprehensible act of pure violence, but what happened next stirs controversy to this day. The citizens of Brownsville blamed the attack on soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 25th Infantry, who had just arrived at a nearby Army base. Reacting immediately to this charge, President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the entire battalion--167 men, all of whom were black -- Discharged Without Honor. But was there any basis for the accusations against them, or were the soldiers victims of racism? Here, every aspect of the century-old case is examined, including the crusade of a white senator who sacrificed his political career to defend the soldiers. Find out how the raid pitted two of the 20th century's greatest African-American leaders against one another, and examine new information that may hold the key to what really happened on that long-ago Texas night.
AmazonUnbox | February 23, 2000
