South Texas College of Law Houston, the local chapter of the NAACP and supporters are seeking clemency for 110 Black soldiers who were sentenced for inciting a riot and committing mutiny while stationed at a military camp in Houston in 1917. An assembly of attorneys are fighting to pardon the Black soldiers of the Third Battalion of the U.S. Army's 24th Infantry Regiment, the Houston Chronicle reports . They intend to request the secretary of the army to issue honorable discharges posthumously and for the Army Board for Correction of Military Records to advocate for clemency of the soldiers to President Joe Biden. The soldiers were sentenced to executions or handed extensive prison terms. “We are on a quest to obtain justice for the 24th Infantry Regiment, that organized group of men who died with shameful reputations at the hands of those who had the power of the government, the courts and the power of the media,” Bishop James Dixon, board president of the NAACP Houston Chapter,...
