Buffalo Soldiers Receive New VA Headstones Following Army Decision to Overturn Convictions
![A court-martial of 64 members of the All-Black 24th Infantry Regiment is held on Nov. 1, 1917, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, stemming from the Houston Race Riot more than two months earlier. (National Archives and Records Administration photo)](https://news.cibassoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/largestcourtmartial.jpg)
More than 100 years after they were convicted of mutiny and murder and hanged for the 1917 Houston Riot, 17 Black soldiers have finally received military burial honors along with new headstones reflecting the honorable discharges the Army awarded them last year. In a solemn ceremony Thursday at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in […]