Buffalo Soldiers In 1866 congress passed an act to adjust the military peacetime after the United States Civil War. A senator in congress wanted to keep six regiments of blacks in the military after the Civil War. Another Senator, Senator Benjamin F. Wade, proposed that two Cavalry regiments be composed of black enlisted personel. After much debate and opposition, mostly from democrats, the legislation was passed to create six black regiments in the United States Army, …
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…Imagine the feeling of being looked down upon or made to feel stupid just because of the color of your skin. Buffalo Soldiers were key in American history and the American west. Today we hear about Martin Luther King Jr., but the Buffalo Soldiers were some of the first Blacks to move towards equality of races. The Buffalo Soldiers are seldom remembered, but but will always live on through the work they accomplished. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**