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US Army sets aside convictions of 110 Black soldiers over 1917 Houston riots
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CNN By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — The US Army has set aside the convictions of 110 Black soldiers charged after the World War I-era Houston riots, with the aim of correcting their decades-old records and characterizing their military service as honorable, according to the service.
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In a ceremony at the Buffalo Soldier Museum in Houston, Army officials said that historians found many "irregularities" in the way the charges were leveled.
CNN By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) — The US Army has set aside the convictions of 110 Black soldiers charged after the World War I-era Houston riots, with the aim of correcting their decades-old records and characterizing their military service as honorable, according to the service.
The Army on Monday overturned the convictions of 110 Black soldiers court-martialed for their involvement in the 1917 Houston riots, which erupted against the backdrop of Jim Crow racial tensions in the United States dur
