Voices: A white-only vision of American valor fails us all. In Utah, we’re working to tell the whole story.
Black service members have long been vital to the defense of this state and nation. Their stories are not side notes — they are central volumes in our shared history.
(Fort Douglas Military Museum) Buffalo Soldiers with the M1873 Springfield Trapdoor rifle. Members of the 24th Infantry, on campaign duty, are lined up with an experimental blanket roll they were testing for the U.S. Army, circa 1893.
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