NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Tennessee’s role in training hundreds of thousands of American boys to fight in World War II is being chronicled in a new documentary slated to be released in 2025.

The marker honors 1,250 Black college graduates who underwent U.S. Army Officer training at Fort Des Moines in 1917 during World War I. At the onset of war, the U.S. War Department doubted whether ...