Shellum, a West Point graduate and retired army officer, has dedicated his research to the Buffalo Soldiers, a group of African American soldiers who played a significant role in U.S. military ...

“At military academies like West Point and the Air Force Academy, officers learn some history of the Buffalo Soldiers, but enlisted soldiers don’t. There are a lot of people in the military ...

Second Lieutenant Charles Young became just the third African American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Young distinguished himself as a soldier in the Ninth U.S. Cavalry, one ...

All together, 52 teams competed and all of the others were made up of only male soldiers. The two Rangers ... She graduated from the Military Academy at West Point in May 2021 and completed ...

Shellum, author of a two-volume biography of Capt. Charles Young, a Buffalo Soldier and West Point graduate. “The Buffalo Soldiers probably felt more like Americans, like citizens, than [they had] ...