On Thursday, February 18th, the Richmond District Public Library will present a free lecture, “Legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers” from 6:30 to 8pm.
At the turn of the 19th century, Congress established the Buffalo Soldiers as the first peacetime African American regiment in the U.S. Army. The nickname was given by the Native American tribes they fought.
Frederik Penn, interpreter and educator at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, will lecture about the role the Buffalo Soldiers played in shaping the national park system with an emphasis on the 9th Cavalry stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco.
On a related note, there is a free screening on February 12 of the documentary “Inside Buffalo”, which tells the story of the 92nd infantry division, an African-American combat unit that fought heroically in Italy during World War II. 6:30pm at the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio. SFCitizen has all the details.
Sarah B.
Buffalo Soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment, 1890
Wow, sounds interesting. I’ll be there!!
Keep telling that history:
Read the novel, Rescue at Pine Ridge, “RaPR”, a great story of black military history…the first generation of Buffalo Soldiers.
How do you keep a people down? ‘Never’ let them ‘know’ their history.
The 7th Cavalry got their butts in a sling again after the Little Big Horn Massacre, fourteen years later, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. If it wasn’t for the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, there would of been a second massacre of the 7th Cavalry.
Read the novel, “Rescue at Pine Ridge”, 5 stars Amazon, Barnes & Noble and the youtube trailer commercial…and visit the website http://www.rescueatpineridge.com
I hope you’ll enjoy the novel. I wrote it from my mini-series movie of the same title, “RaPR” to keep my story alive. Hollywood has had a lot of strikes and doesn’t like telling our stories…its been “his-story” of history all along…until now. The movie so far has attached, Bill Duke directing, Hill Harper, Glynn Turman and a host of other major actors in which we are in talks with…see imdb.com at; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925633/
When you get a chance, also please visit our Alpha Wolf Production website at; http://www.alphawolfprods.com and see our other productions, like Stagecoach Mary, the first Black Woman to deliver mail for Wells Fargo in Montana, in the 1890’s, “spread the word”.
Peace.