African American soldiers

Letters concerning Robinson's request for a commission in the "colored service" of the U.S. Army during the Civil War.

This collection contains legal and financial documents related to two African American Revolutionary War soldiers from Connecticut, Cash Palatine and Liverpool Wadsworth.

A Southeast Army Air Forces Training Center appointment to first lieutenant for Smith, a Tuskegee Airman.

Family documents, military documents, and approximately forty-seven photographs depicting Grant Gordon's family and military life in the 1940s. Of particular interest are Mr. Gordon's military records and photographs from his time serving as a squad leader in the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, the only African American combat unit included in the first assault forces to land on Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944.

Thirty seven framed photographs of African Americans in military uniforms, Border War, WWI, and WWII including portraits of Duncan Fields and Rubin Fields; portraits of women and families; large plaque with two photos of military men (Willie L. E. Means and James E. Means, date of their enlistment in the army).

One broadside advertising four events at the Soldiers' Club spanning August 31-September 2, 1918, for soldiers sponsored by the War Camp Community Service in Charlotte, North Carolina. The events are a dance, a concert, a reception advertising white soldiers should be in uniform, and a baseball game between "colored soldiers" and the Negro League team, the Charlotte Red Sox.

Letters from this African American soldier who served in the 310th Quartermaster Railhead Company during World War II to his family in Montgomery, Alabama.