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.