Article 5T8SJ Advocates Fight for Clemency for Black WWI Soldiers Found Guilty of 1917 Camp Logan Riot in Houston

Advocates Fight for Clemency for Black WWI Soldiers Found Guilty of 1917 Camp Logan Riot in Houston

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Rachel Pilgrim
from The Root on (#5T8SJ)
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A group of advocates, including a local NAACP chapter, are looking to clear the names of 110 Black World War I soldiers found guilty of the deadly Camp Logan riot in the summer of 1917. Some of the men were given life sentences and others were executed in what would go down as the largest murder trial in United...

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