DuBois and the Black Soldier, 1919 Looking Back 100 Years
In American History, not just Black History in America, the black soldier has paid a debt to the continuation of the democracy of the United States that can never fully be repaid. Throughout every military engagements in this country; from the very first shots taken on the streets of Boston during the Revolutionary War, when Crispus Attucks was the very first person white or black to bleed for a nation, not yet born; to the last skirmish on the streets or mountainous ravine or gully of some war-torn middle-eastern nation; the American Blackman and woman has rallied to the defense of liberty and freedom. Even when freedom was being denied at home during the 2 great world wars, the battles in Korea, and in Vietnam. The Blackman has stood up against those odds to fight for Democratic ideals that were not being practiced on the home front but he elevated those principles of democracy on foreign shores.