Dozens of Black soldiers were sentenced to life or hanged after the 1917 ‘Houston Riot.’ The Army has now overturned their convictions.

The Houston melee was a violent brawl that saw Black soldiers march into the city after receiving word that a white police officer had pistol-whipped and killed a Black corporal.

As the U.S. Army attempts to acknowledge and remedy its past wrongs, it has reversed the convictions of 110 Black soldiers found guilty of mutiny, assault and murder in the largest trial in military history.

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