People Making History - Teddy Roosevelt and the Brownsville Affair
Date/Time
9/12/2024
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Central
Event Type(s)
Leavenworth
Community
Event Description

Program Type:

 Presentation

Age Group: 

Adults

Program Description

Event Details

Dr. Amanda Nagel discusses the Brownsville Affair, an incident of racial discrimination that occurred in 1906 in Brownsville, TX, when Buffalo Soldiers stationed nearby were falsely accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer. President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the discharge without honor of 167 soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment, costing them pensions and preventing them from ever serving in federal civil service jobs. 

Location
Leavenworth Public Library
417 Spruce St.
Leavenworth, KS
UNITED STATES

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Cindy McGuire
(phone: 9136825666)
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