The Brownsville Affair was a racial incident that grew out of tensions between whites in Brownsville, Texas and #black infantrymen stationed at nearby Fort Brown. The infantrymen had been subjected to racial discrimination since they arrived. A shooting incident in town on the night of August 13 left a white bartender dead and a police […]
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