Buffalo Soldiers

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

Fort Larned was one of the first western Army posts to have a unit of the new African-American units authorized by Congress after the Civil War. Company A, 10th U.S. Cavalry was stationed at Fort Larned from m More

Born to enslaved parents on March 21, 1856, Henry O. Flipper would become the seventh African American to attend the US Military Academy at West Point. Though several entered the school before him, he was the f More

This guest dining room used to be a screened in porch, and was converted to a dining room in the 1920s. The fireplace is made of stones carved by Buffalo Soldiers who were stationed in Bonita Canyon during the More

Buffalo Soldiers in the 10th Cavalry made this monument to President Garfield in 1886, while they were stationed in Bonita Canyon. In the 1920s, Lillian and Ed Riggs dismantled the monument and turned the stone More

African-American soldiers of the 25th Infantry, also known as Buffalo Soldiers, pose for a company photo at Fort Keough, Montana in 1890. The 25th Infantry was one of four U.S. Army segregated regiments formed More

Fort Selden was built near the town of Las Cruces in 1865, and housed troops for 25 years. The fort contained one company of infantry and cavalry, including units of black troops known as “Buffalo Soldiers.” By More

In 1896 the army embarked on an ambitious plan to embrace the bicycling craze that had been sweeping over the nation. Lieutenant James Moss of the 25th Infantry (one of the 4 Buffalo Soldier regiments) led men More

There were many firsts in the storied career of Colonel Charles Young. Among them was becoming the first African American military attaché to Haiti in 1906. Young would throw himself into his work in the years More

Re-enactment groups like this Buffalo Soldier unit are one of the mainstays of our volunteer program. Without these volunteers it would be difficult to "populate" the fort with the soldiers who were stationed here.

Shortly after declaring war on Germany to enter WWI, the US had to construct military training facilities all over the country to prepare men for war. Camp Sherman was built in Ohio in an unfortunate location, More

Buffalo Soldiers. ; 1930s-1990s Public domain photograph of a national park, horse riding, rangers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Army Cpt. William Cline, a 1941 Clemson College graduate, somewhere in Italy during WWII. Cline was the service company commander for the 758th Tank Battalion, the only black tank battalion in Italy during More

Pictured: a machine gun crew of Company A, 24th Regiment, 25th Infantry Division turns its gun on Chinese communists in a village across the Han River from Songnimbong, Korea, February 1951. Photo courtesy of t More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Event: Black History Month Program Subject Description: HUD Black History Month Program: Buffalo Soldiers and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. P More

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P More

The Buffalo Soldier group from Nicodemus frequently comes out on Memorial Day weekend to demonstrate the life of a black soldier in the U.S. cavalry.

Re-enactors from the Nicodemus Buffalo Soldier unit demonstrate cavalry drills on the Parade Ground.

Sgt Priscella Gray, (right) 47th Transportation Company, 142nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, greets the horse she will ride through Las Cruces , N.M. desert at The Corralitos Ranch Jan. 30.

Charles Jackson and Sheila Neal of The Arizona Chapter of the Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Riders Club, ride their motorcycles after visiting the Arizona Military Museum, here.

David Smith, Superintendent of Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site, explains the significance of the National Park Service ranger hat, and how it was modeled after hats worn by the Buffalo Soldi More

Performances by the Nicodemus Buffalo Soldier Association are one of the many highlights of the Emancipation Celebration.

Prints of Buffalo Soldiers by famed historical artist Dale Gallon, hang in the U.S. Army Reserve Command Headquarters at Fort Bragg, N.C., Feb. 12, 2013. The prints are in commemoration of Black History month. More

A mannequin of a Buffalo Soldier was one of the center pieces for a presentation given by officers and soldiers from 6th “Saber” Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Fo More

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P More

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P More

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P More

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P More

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P More

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P More

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P More

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P More

Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover poses with Buffalo Soldier veterans of the 9th Cavalry at the meet and greet portion of the Honoring the Past and Embracing the Future, an American history tribute More

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eva Abrams, a performance artist, takes the audience through African-American history during African-American/Black History Month Observance at McChord Theater on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Feb. 11, 2016. More

Charles Taylor, a Buffalo Soldier re-enactor and retired command sergeant major, depicts life as a black Soldier from the Revolutionary War to World War II during a Black History Month observance at William Bea More

Artwork and memorabilia were part of the historical reception at the Black Chamber of Orange County’s Annual Banquet at the Disneyland Hotel August 27, 2016, in Anaheim, Calif. The banquet, held annually, highl More

Warrant Officer Regina M. Crump, a human resource technician for Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division Artillery and Detroit, Michigan, native, recites a poem during a Black History Mon More

Betty Stokes, the grand niece of Augustus Walley, and Maj. Gen. Linda Singh, the adjutant general of Maryland, unveil the plaque dedicating the Guilded Age room in the Maryland Museum of Military History at the More

Spc. Michael Krystallis, cavalry scout, 1st Battalion 17th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, crosses a bridge during the ruck march portion of the 2018 Lancer Soldier/No More

Lt. Col. Sara Root, chief of the Army’s Military Justice Legislation Training Team, assigned to office of The Judge Advocate General-criminal law division, briefs commanders and first sergeants May 5-6 on the c More

Members of the Colonel Young Foundation and Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument pose for a group photo in front of the Colonel Young Tree.

Ranger Shelton Johnson speaks to guests about Colonel Charles Young and the Buffalo Soldiers.

Guests at the re-dedication event listen to speakers. Picryl description: Public domain photograph of National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Dignitaries and guests listen to superintendent Smeck deliver opening remarks.

Dr. Joy Kinard, superintendent of Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, speaks to guests at the event.

A wide shot of the area of the Colonel Young Tree showing most of the Colonel Young Tree.

Ranger Shelton Johnson of Yosemite National Park poses for a photo with Visual Information Specialist Tom Engberg of Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument.

Assemblyman Devon Mathis presents frames resolutions that the California General Assembly proclaimed for the highway rededication.

Assemblyman Devon Mathis speaks to the crowd. Public domain photograph related to US National Parks, Nature, conservation, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A view from the bottom to the top of the Colonel Young tree.

Members of the Colonel Charles Young Foundation pose with the new highway sign for the roadway re-dedication.

Distinguished guests in the front row listen attentively to Ranger Shelton Johnson.

Renotta Young, CEO of The Colonel Charles Young Foundation, presents recognition awards to members of the Omega Psi Fraternity, Inc and friends of the Foundation.

Foundation member and Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument staff listen to park staff interns speak about the Booker T. Washington Tree. Colonel Young deferred naming a tree in his honor until a tr More

Members of the Colonel Charles Young Foundation pose with the new highway sign for the roadway re-dedication.

Members of the Colonel Young Foundation and Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument pose for a group photo in front of the Colonel Young Tree.

CEO of the Colonel Young Foundation, Renotta Young, poses with her daughter, Rhavie, in front of the Colonel Young Tree.

Renotta Young, CEO of The Colonel Charles Young Foundation, speaks to guests at the event.

Members of the Colonel Young Foundation and Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument hold hands and span the tree trunk of the Colonel Young Tree.