Feb. 3, 2026
The largest murder trial in the history of the United States
The 1917 Houston incident exposed how entrenched racism, mob violence, and profound due process failures led the U.S. Army to wrongfully court-martial and execute 19 Black Buffalo Soldiers of the 24th Infantry--an injustice formally acknowledged and corrected only more than a century later through posthumous clemency.
4th Appellate District, Division 3
Eileen C. Moore
Associate Justice
California Courts of Appeal
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"White People did not like the idea of well-armed African-American Soldiers in their midst."
-- Fred L. Borch III, Army Regimental Historian$95
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