Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the “Little Rock Nine” students into the all-white Central High School. Arkansas, 1957.
![A Civil War re-enactor as a soldier of the United States Colored Troops. Photo from the traveling exhibit “Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory: Civil War Sesquicentennial Photography Exhibit,” which hits the Edgecombe County Public Library in Tarboro, North Carolina from July 2-29. [NCCulture]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6ilvi6Inv1qigaa4o1_r1_500.jpg)
A Civil War re-enactor as a soldier of the United States Colored Troops. Photo from the traveling exhibit “Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory: Civil War Sesquicentennial Photography Exhibit,” which hits the Edgecombe County Public Library in Tarboro, North Carolina from July 2-29. [NCCulture]
National Archives via greatestgeneration: “African American troops practice combat drills in boot camp. In Italy, Buffalo Soldiers put that practice into action against the Germans.”
Up top, that’s Pearl Harbor hero Doris “Dorie” Miller (October 12, 1919 – November 24, 1943). Along the bottom are his fictional counterparts played by Elven Havard in Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and Cuba Gooding, Jr. in Pearl Harbor (2001).
