Category: African-American Military History

Categories: African-American Family History


This is a high level category. Please do not add individual profiles. Add profiles to the narrowest category possible. See How to Categorize.

African Americans have participated in every war fought by or within the United States of America. This would include the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Great War, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

This is a high level category for gathering historically significant events and military units.

This category is managed by the US Black Heritage Project in association with the Categorization Project. For assistance with this or related categories ask in G2G making sure to tag your question with both categorization and US Black Heritage.

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Subcategories (8)

38th Infantry Regiment (Segregated), United States Army (0, 1, 0)
African Americans in the American Civil War (217, 1, 0)
African-Americans in World War I (84, 1, 0)
African-Americans in World War II (31, 0, 1)
African-Americans in the American Revolution (2, 89, 0)
African-Americans in the Korean War (1, 0, 0)
African-Americans in the Spanish-American War (5, 1, 0)
Buffalo Soldiers (13, 108, 2)

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25th United States Colored Troops (USCT) Privacy Level: Open (White)
54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Privacy Level: Open (White)
55th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Privacy Level: Open (White)
88th United States Colored Troops Privacy Level: Public (Green)
African-American Tank Battalions, World War II Privacy Level: Open (White)
African-American War Dead Privacy Level: Open (White)
African American Civil War veterans of Berkshire County, Massachusetts Privacy Level: Open (White)
African American Medal of Honor Recipients Privacy Level: Open (White)
Flags of the USCT Privacy Level: Open (White)
Golden Thirteen Privacy Level: Open (White)
Slaves in Alabama Civil War Service Database Privacy Level: Open (White)
Tuskegee Airmen Privacy Level: Public (Green)
US Black Heritage: Military and War Portal Privacy Level: Open (White)




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