Author : John Downing Weaver
Release : 2000
Genre : African American soldiers
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Brownsville Raid by : John Downing Weaver

Download or read book The Brownsville Raid written by John Downing Weaver. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious midnight shooting spree that began on a dirt road in Texas between Brownsville and Fort Brown on August 13, 1906, killed one civilian and shattered the lives of 167 black infantrymen who had been summarily discharged without honor by a stroke of President Theodore Roosevelt's pen. Weaver also traces the intertwined lives of Ohio's Senator Joseph B. Foraker, who risked his political career in an eloquent defense of the soldiers, who "asked no favors because they are Negroes but only for justice because they are men"; of Dorsie Willis, the Mississippi sharecropper's son who emerged from obscurity as the black battalion's last survivor; and of the New York aristocrat who linked the fates of those two men - the flamboyant and popular Theodore Roosevelt.