布朗斯威尔的事情

布朗斯威尔的事情,(1906),种族的事件的紧张局势白人之间布朗斯威尔,德州,美国,and Black infantrymen stationed at nearby Fort Brown. About midnight, August 13–14, 1906, rifle shots on a street in Brownsville killed one white man and wounded another. White commanders at Fort Brown believed all the Black soldiers were in their barracks at the time of the shooting; but the city’s mayor and other whites asserted that they had seen Black soldiers on the street firing indiscriminately, and they produced spent shells from army rifles to support their statements. Despite evidence that the shells had been planted as part of a frame-up, investigators accepted the statements of the mayor and the white citizens.

当黑人士兵坚称他们没有知识的射击,总统西奥多。罗斯福订购了167黑人步兵没有荣誉,因为他们的排放阴谋的沉默。他的行为引起很大不满黑人和画了一些批评从白人,但美国参议院一个委员会,调查这一事件在1907 - 08年,支持罗斯福的行动。

布朗斯威尔事件以来一直是争议的问题,和的崛起公民权利运动成为了军队的尴尬问题。在1970年出版后的约翰·d·韦弗布朗斯威尔的袭击,认为退役士兵被无辜的,军队进行了一项新的调查,1972年,推翻了1906年的订单。