Sergeant Henry Johnson, a native of Albany, enlisted in 1917 with the all-Black 15th New York National Guard regiment, which was also know as the Harlem Hellfighters. During his military career ...

World War One brought many social changes - not least, the introduction of jazz to Europe. Thanks to a black American regiment of musicians called the Harlem Hellfighters, the French discovered ...

7 There were some significant exceptions, notably the “Harlem Hellfighters,” a black ... of them posthumously—and none at all during World War II, in which more than 125,000 black soldiers ...