People Making History: Teddy Roosevelt and the Brownsville Affair

Dr. Amanda Nagel discusses the Brownsville Affair, an incident of racial discrimination that occurred in 1906 in Brownsville, TX, when Buffalo Soldiers stationed nearby were falsely accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer. President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the discharge without honor of 167 soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment, costing them pensions and preventing them from ever serving in federal civil service jobs.