| Details | Since the first shot fired from Lexington Green Massachusetts in 1775, Blacks have defended this country. However, it was not on a legal basis. Find out how they were eventually afforded the opportunity to defend the country on a legal basis
Additional Information: John W. McCaskill, M.A. brings dynamic public speaking presentations in Washington, DC and across the country. To authenticate his living history presentations, he adorns period attire for colonial, WWII/Army Air Corps Tuskegee Airmen, and Civil War U.S. Colored Troops, World War I, Reconstruction, Buffalo Soldier, and the 1960’s Civil Rights period.
Image Credit: Carte de visite of Sgt. Jacob Johns (19th USCT). Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Liljenquist Family Collection |
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