Reposted by Jo Boe
📣 “We shouldn’t have to go out there and do wrong to our own people.” 📣
43 African American soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas refused deployment for riot control at DNC in Chicago, #tdih 1968.
Punished with court-martial, hard labor, & reductions in rank.
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August 23, 1968: Forty-Three Black Soldiers Stage Sit-In at Ft. Hood
When the “Fort Hood 43” refused to board a plane to Chicago for riot-control duty against fellow African Americans, their non-violent act became one of the largest demonstrations of dissent in U.S. mi...