African American sacrifice in the killing fields of France

The modest granite monument at the entrance to Séchault, a village in eastern France, commemorates the sacrifice of the US 369th Infantry Regiment, African Americans who came from Harlem to fight in the last months of World War I. A single word in brackets, “Coloured,” alludes to the official name of the New York National Guard unit from which the soldiers were drawn.

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