What makes the Buffalo Soldiers important?

Answer 1

One of the most famous of the Buffalo Soldiers was Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper. He was West Point’s first black graduate and America’s first black officer, and he became the first black hero in the ranks of the black army regiments.

Answer 2

They were African American soldiers that helped Teddy Roosevelt. The Buffalo Soldiers were named forty years before Teddy. They received as many or more awards than their white counterpart solders, furthermore;

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.

Answer 3

The Buffalo Soldiers (4 generations, Indian Wars, Spanish American War, WW-I and WW-II) fought and died for "Love of Liberty" as they believed then, furthermore; they never received their 'just due reward'. In all these wars, they were in most cases, the front line of offense and defense America's "Top Secret Weapon".