In 1898, Dr. Samuel Burdette, a Seattleite and a U.S. Army veteran, volunteers to raise an African American regiment for the Spanish American War.
Samuel Burdette volunteers to raise an African American regiment for Spanish American war in 1898.
- By Helen Lacy
- Posted 11/07/1998
- HistoryLink.org Essay 270
Sources:
Esther Hall Mumford, Seattle's Black Victorians, 1852-1901 (Seattle: Ananse Press, 1980).
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