{"id":114501,"date":"2023-11-15T10:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T15:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=114501"},"modified":"2023-11-15T10:39:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T15:39:42","slug":"army-sets-aside-convictions-of-110-black-soldiers-related-to-1917-houston-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/11\/15\/army-sets-aside-convictions-of-110-black-soldiers-related-to-1917-houston-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Sets Aside Convictions of 110 Black Soldiers Related to 1917 Houston Riot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 PENTAGON \u2014 <\/span>The Army has canceled the courts-martial convictions of 110 Black soldiers tried in connection with the World War I-era Houston riot and has recharacterized their military service as honorable.<\/p>\n

“After a thorough review, the Board has found that these soldiers were wrongly treated because of their race and were not given fair trials,” Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth said in a statement on Monday. “By setting aside their convictions and granting honorable discharges, the Army is acknowledging past mistakes and setting the record straight.”<\/p>\n

The Houston riot took place on Aug. 23, 1917, following months of racial provocations against members of the 24th Infantry Regiment, whose soldiers were among those dubbed “buffalo soldiers.”<\/p>\n

Following the assault of two Black soldiers and amid rumors of additional threats, a group of armed soldiers marched into the city, where clashes erupted and left 19 people dead.<\/p>\n

The Army convicted 110 soldiers following the riots on mutiny, assault and murder charges. More than 60 served life sentences, and 19 were hanged.<\/p>\n

According to the Army, the first set of executions occurred in secrecy and within a day of sentencing, leading the military service branch to “implement an immediate regulatory change which prohibited future executions without review by the War Department and the President.”<\/p>\n

In 2020 and 2021, the Army was petitioned to review the cases.<\/p>\n

Upon review, the Army found “significant deficiencies” that led the Army Board for Correction of Military Records to deem the proceedings “fundamentally unfair,” according to the Army.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is able to assist any family members of those soldiers upon receipt of the corrected records, as relatives may be entitled to benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 PENTAGON \u2014 The Army has canceled the courts-martial convictions of 110 Black soldiers tried in connection with the World War I-era Houston riot and has recharacterized their military service as honorable. “After a thorough review, the Board has found that these soldiers were wrongly treated because of their race and were not given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114504,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114501\/revisions\/114504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}