Join podcasting siblings Jamie and Bambi as they return to the Jim Crow South to examine the underlying causes of the Camp Logan Mutiny. First we get a picture of where America is at in 1917 and take an uncomfortable look at the laws and social standards of former slave states. Next we learn about the all-black Buffalo Soldiers and their history of brave and honorable service despite the lies told by racist politicians such as Teddy Roosevelt. But when the United States joins World War I the Buffalo Soldiers are called to guard the construction of a training camp for new draftees—Camp Logan in Houston, a bayou town fully embracing white supremacy enforced by a brutal police force. What could possibly go wrong?
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Sources
Mutiny of Rage: The 1917 Camp Logan Riots and Buffalo Soldiers in Houston
by Jaime Salazar and Geoffrey Corn
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61325696-mutiny-of-rage-lib-e
Mutiny on the Bayou: The Camp Logan Story
Documentary by KHOU (CBS affiliate in Houston, Texas)
“Army Overturns Convictions of 110 Black Soldiers Charged in 1917 Riot”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/us/army-black-soldiers-houston-riot.html
“What was life like when the US entered World War I?”
https://www.wcvb.com/article/what-was-life-like-when-the-us-entered-world-war-i/
“The Average American Today and on the Eve of World War I”
Saturday Evening Post
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/04/average-american-today-eve-world-war/
“The Forgotten Northern Origins of Jim Crow”
https://time.com/5527029/jim-crow-plessy-history/
Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
by Herman Lehmann
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/181989209-nine-years-among-the-indians-1870-1879
“Buffalo Soldiers at San Juan Hill”
https://history.army.mil/documents/spanam/bssjh/shbrt-bssjh.htm
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military From the Revolution to Desert Storm
by Gail Buckley
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13134601-american-patriots
Public Opinion
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania • Wed, Dec 19, 1917 • Page 1
https://www.newspapers.com/article/public-opinion-cpl-charles-baltimore-of/135162786/
Baltimore’s Last Letter
https://pantagraph.newspapers.com/article/the-franklin-repository-cpl-charles-balt/135165197/
Music
Original Dixieland Jazz Band - LIVERY STABLE BLUES - fox trot - 1917
BALTIMORE, Charles W. - South Texas College of Law Digital Collection
https://digitalcollections.stcl.edu/digital/collection/p15568coll1/id/2103/rec/2
Memorandum: 1917 September 13, Inspector General of the Army to The Adjutant General of the Army
https://digitalcollections.stcl.edu/digital/collection/p15568coll1/id/1203/rec/1
Part One: The Camp Logan Mutiny of 1917