Category Archives: Blacks soldiers in WWI

Ebony Doughboys-3 Centuries of Black Soldiers-Trenton Old Barracks Museum

“3 Centuries of Black Soldiers” is a  living history  timeline event. The narrative of these soldiers is told by re-enactors who portray black soldiers from the Revolutionary War to World War II.

The event in its 6th year is held annually at The Trenton Old Barracks Museum, Trenton, NJ.  Admission times are 9-5 Saturday February 28 and Sunday March 1st, 2015.

The Ebony Doughboys will tell the story of the 369th Infantry Harlem Hellfighters of WWI fame. The 369th Infantry in WWI was one of the few African American units that had their own officers and also a world famous Jazz band led by 1st LT.James Europe. The 369th never lost any ground to the enemy or had any of its troops captured by the Germans during its service in WWI.

Please come join us and learn more about this fascinating regiment. For more information on black combat units that served in WWI please click: www.ebonydoughboys.org 

 

Ebony Doughboys-WWI-Harlem Hellfighters

cropped-Ebony-Doughboys-logo.pngEbony Doughboy member Algernon Ward will give a presentation on “The Harlem Hellfighters” at the Union League 140 South Broad St. Philadelphia, Pa. February 16, 2015 at 6 Pm. 369 marching

Affectionate known as Algie by friends and family Algie is Professionally  employed at the NJ Department of Health Laboratories since 1982 where he became its first African-American Chemist in 1987. In 2003 Algernon Ward Jr. became the NJDHSS’ first African-American Research Scientist.

In his personal life, while pursuing twin passions of acting and history,  Algie  is a founding member of the 6th Regiment United States Colored Troops, Civil War Reenactors Inc., where he is the President and 1st Sergeant. The regiment expanded to include African-American Revolutionary War patriots where Algie portrays both a soldier of “The Black Regiment” the 1st Rhode Island Regiment and Black Joe Brown a soldier of Glover’s Marbleheaders. As a Continental Militiaman, 

Algie can be seen in The History Channel’s series of “The Tech Effect of Washington Crossing The Delaware”. In the summer and fall of 2003 Algie was the Featured Reenactor in Part Four – “The Challenge To Freedom” as Senator Robert Smalls, South Carolina’s first African-American US Senator and Civil War hero, for the PBS Mini-Series  Slavery and The Making of America aired on WNET-13 New York in November 2005.

Algie’s image appears in the NJDEP’s “Oh Freedom” traveling exhibit which highlights the fight for freedom on both sides of the Revolutionary War.
For the past 5 years in commemoration of Black History Month the 6th Regiment USCT presents a program entitled “Three Centuries of Black Soldiers” in collaboration with Trenton’s Old Barracks Museum and The Trenton Historical Society. The program exhibits the contributions of African-American military men over the entire span of American military history.  Algie’s composed an engaging presentation focused on the history of the local “Black Doughboys” of World War I, many of whom were members of the famous 369th “Harlem Hellfighters” of the all black 93rd Division. His study of the regiment revealed a trove of information that could be lost in time if the reenactors of today didn’t make the effort to tell their stories.
To learn more about black combat troops in WWI click: www.ebonydoughboys.org

“The Great War”- Ebony Doughboys-WWI-Re-enactors

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Ebony Doughboys are African American WWI historians and Re-enactors that re-create life as it was for black soldiers during “The Great War”. We live and fight in the trenches as our ancestors did over 100 years ago. Our uniforms and equipment are that of an Ebony Doughboy serving under French command while still American soldiers of the 93rd Infantry Division. Ebony douchboys assaulting a trench

The 93rd Division was comprised of four regiments, the famous Harlem Hell Fighters of the 369th Infantry regiment, 370th Infantry, 371st Infantry and the 372nd Infantry.

For more information on black combat troops of the 93rd Infantry Division during “the war to end all wars” click: www.ebonydoughboys.org