Buffalo Soldiers

Items listed below are in the file drawers of a cabinet in the Kansas Room of LVPL.
For additional online information, click here: Wikipedia: Buffalo Soldiers online encyclopedia article about the Buffalos Soldiers - illustrated.

Stable Call. September 1966. [Newsletter of the 9th and 10th Cavalry]

Article - "Black Cowboys." Ill, ND.

Ferguson, Lew. "Soldiers' Statue Makes Way to Fort." Lawrence Journal World. May 19, 1992, ill.

Leckie, William H. "The Buffalo Soldier Monument: Fort Leavenworth, Kansas." The Buffalo Soldier Monument Committee. Ill, ND.

Pigott, Sgt. Brian. "Fort's Buffalo Soldiers Lay Foundation for Change." Fort Leavenworth Lamp. July 24, 1992, ill.

Simmons, Thomas E. "Negroes in the U. S. Army: An Attempt to Bar Them From Enlistment;" and other articles on this topic, ND.

Sullivan, LaToya. "9th, 10th Calvary Regiments Helped Blaze Trails into America's West." Article, ND.

Sullivan, LaToya. "Buffalo Soldier Memorial: Committee Plans to Honor 19th Century Black Calvarymen." Article, ND.

Buffalo Soldiers Gathering at Fort;" and other articles related to the arrival of monument commemorating the Buffalo Soldiers in 1992.

"The Buffalo Soldiers: Part VIII;" - an excerpt from a booklet (Filed in LVPL main floor vertical file) entitled, "Blacks in the Westward Movement." [Pp. 42-46] This was a 1975 publication by the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum.

Parish, Connie. "Buffalo Soldier, Musician Recalled." Leavenworth Times. Feb. 15, 2005, ill.