World War II: A Black American soldier’s journal
The information on the Death Notice was spare and emotionless. “Theodore Roosevelt ‘Wheeler’ Wilson, age 81 of Mount Vernon, Indiana. Carpenter, World War II veteran. Death by drowning Dec. 3,…
Today in military history: 101st Airborne escorts Black students as Central High integrates
On Sep. 25 1957, the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division escorted nine Black students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The U.S. Supreme Court had ruled…