The Soldiers Who Marched on the City

One summer a battalion of Black soldiers was stationed near a southern city. For months they faced racial abuse from local police and residents. Two soldiers were violently arrested. That night more than a hundred soldiers seized weapons and marched into the city. In the fighting that followed nineteen people were killed. The Army tried 110 soldiers in mass courts-martial for mutiny and murder. The question for each man was whether he took part in the mutiny and the killings.