Black Buffalo Soldiers Fight in Spanish-American War 1898

The 9th and 10th Cavalry and 24th and 25th Infantry, the Buffalo Soldier regiments, fought with distinction in Cuba in 1898, including the charge up San Juan Hill where the 10th Cavalry rescued Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders from a potentially catastrophic position. Despite their valor, Black soldiers returned to Jim Crow America and were subjected to racial violence; several were killed by white civilians in the South while still in uniform.