Sandy Springs NewsLocal news for Sandy Springs, SC continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.History mystery- February 18, 2008 "It's an interesting unit that should be remembered" S.C. black regiment to be featured on PBSAs the Great War raged in Europe in 1917, a group of African-American draftees and their white officers -- all from South Carolina -- mustered into the newly built Camp Jackson in Columbia to train for the trenches.But before they could be sent to fight in World War I, the institutional racism of the day kicked in. They would not be allowed to serve alongside all-white U.S. units.The solution They...http://www.topix.net/city/sandy-springs-sc/2008/02/history-mystery?fromrss=1 |