To keep history straight.

Though hundreds of African-American Wilsonians were drafted into service during World War I, they were excluded from this public invitation to form a veterans’ group. Apparently, only deeds of valor perpetuated by white soldiers and sailors were to be kept alive.

Wilson Daily Times, 11 August 1919.

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