{"product_id":"brownsville-raid-9780890965283","title":"Brownsville Raid","description":"Around midnight on August 13, 1906, shots rang out on the road between Brownsville, Texas, and Fort Brown, the old army garrison. Ten minutes later a young civilian lay dead, and angry residents swarmed the streets, convinced their homes had been terrorized by newly arrived soldiers. Inside Fort Brown, the alarm was sounded. Soldiers leaped from their bunks and grabbed their rifles, thinking they were under attack by hostile townspeople. The soldiers were black; the civilians were white. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Still proclaiming their innocence, 167 black infantrymen of the segregated Twenty-fifth Infantry Regiment were summarily dismissed without honor (or a trial) by President Theodore Roosevelt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrownsville\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Raid, \u003c\/i\u003e first published in 1970, is John D. Weaver's searching study of the flimsy evidence presented in a 1909-1910 court of inquiry. That court had upheld the president's action and closed the case against the soldiers, not one of whom had ever been found guilty of wrongdoing. The case remained closed until 1971 when, after reading \u003ci\u003eThe Brownsville Raid, \u003c\/i\u003e Congressman Augustus F. Hawkins of Los Angeles introduced a bill to have the Defense Department rectify the injustice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Amid a flurry of national publicity, honorable discharges were finally granted in 1972. All were posthumous except for that of Private Dorsie Willis, who received his in a moving ceremony on his eighty-seventh birthday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John D. Weaver\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Reveille Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 5.56w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780890965283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/26\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOHN D. WEAVER's ten books include a novel based on the 1932 Bonus March, the seminal biography of Chief Justice Earl Warren, \u003ci\u003eGlad Tidings, \u003c\/i\u003e his thirty-seven year correspondence with John Cheever, and \u003ci\u003eThe Senator and the Sharecropper's Son, \u003c\/i\u003e the sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Brownsville Raid\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reveille Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40426894229619,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":36.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_03a26156-cc16-4931-9782-d388c7c62388.jpg?v=1662644834","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/brownsville-raid-9780890965283","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}