This Day in Black History: July 25, 1992

This Day in Black History: July 25, 1992
Gen. Colin Powell dedicates Buffalo Soldiers monument at Fort Leavenworth on July 25, 1992.

While serving as a one-star general at Missouri's Fort Leavenworth Army base in 1982, Colin Powell decided that two gravel alleys weren't enough of a tribute to the Buffalo Soldiers. It was 10 years in the making, but on July 25, 1992, Powell returned to the base to dedicate in their honor a 13-foot statue of an African-American soldier riding his horse, rifle in hand.

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