People Making History: Teddy Roosevelt and the Brownsville Affair

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Dr. Amanda Nagel discusses the Brownsville Affair, an incident of racial discrimination that occurred in 1906 in Brownsville, Texas. President Theodore Roosevelt discharged without honor 167 Buffalo soldiers stationed nearby who were falsely accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer.