Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I am Karen Hunter and while yes, I am awesome. This podcast is about

people and the things that they have to offer to you. I believe in speaking things into existence.

So it is with that, I offer you these amazing

people, these awesome topics. Sit back and enjoy. 1917, I'm going to take you back because,

you know, it's the greatest country in the world. 1917, August 23rd, 13 black soldiers were

hanged in Houston. That's right. Part of what they call the Houston Mutiny or the Camp Logan Mutiny.

And I'm going to put it in perspective.

So America declared war in the spring of 1917 on Germany, right?

America declared World War I broke out.

And they decided to install two new military battalions in Harris County, which to this day, Harris County, shout out to Harris County, one of the baddest counties period on earth, Texas, Camp Logan and Ellington Field.

July 27th, 1917, the United States ordered therd Battalion, all black, 24th Infantry Regiment

to guard the camp construction site. The regiment traveled to Houston by train. They came in

at Columbus, New Mexico. They had seven commissioned officers among them. From their arrival,

though, their black presence was a problem in segregated Houston.

Tensions were in place, of course, Jim Crow was raging.

Jim Crow was the law of the land.

And soldiers were forced to contend with segregation.

Now, imagine they're going overseas to fight for freedom, justice in the American way, only to be treated like subhumans in America, right?

So there were clashes.

And one such clash led to Lee Sparks and Rufus Daniels to Houston police officers disrupted a gathering on a street corner in Houston's predominantly

black section. So black folk being joyful, having joy. In San Felipe, I don't know if San

Felipe, those of you Houstonians will let me know if San Felipe District still exists, if it's

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