The "Buffalo Soldiers" Motorcycle Club of Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia attended the film in full MC leather jackets and vests. They arrived with their families to view the film. On my way into the VAHS, the group all gathered beside their motorcycles for photographs by VMFA's Jeffrey Allison. I really wish I had brought my camera!
http://www.buffalosoldiersrichmondmclive.org/2010nationalconference.htm
Sergeant Rutledge, a film made in 1960 by John Ford (in Technicolor) is the story of the court-martial of 1st Sergeant Braxton Rutledge, a "Buffalo Soldier of the 9th U.S. Cavalry. Jeffrey Hunter stars at Lieutenant Tom Cantrell, Rutledge's troop officer and defense counselor. The story is told through flashbacks, that include the testimony of witnesses as they describe the events following the murder of Rutledge's Commanding Officer, Major Dabney, and the rape and murder of Dabney's daughter, for which Rutledge is accused.
http://virginiamuseum.art.museum/black_history_2010.html
Great pictures...keep telling that history, our history.
ReplyDeleteHow do you keep a people down? ‘Never' let them 'know' their history.
"If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."
Dr. Carter G. Woodson 1875 – 1950
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
Marcus Garvey 1887-1940
"A tree without roots can bare no fruit, it will die."
Erich Martin Hicks 1952 - Present
Keep telling that history, our history:
Read the novel; Rescue at Pine Ridge, "RaPR", a great story of black military history...the first generation of Buffalo Soldiers.
The 7th Cavalry got their butts in a sling again after the Little Big Horn Massacre, fourteen years later, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. If it wasn't for the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, there would of been a second massacre of the 7th Cavalry.
Read the novel, “Rescue at Pine Ridge”, 5 stars Amazon, Barnes & Noble and the youtube trailer commercial...and visit the website http://www.rescueatpineridge.com
I hope you’ll enjoy the novel. I wrote it from my mini-series movie of the same title, “RaPR” to keep my story alive. Hollywood has had a lot of strikes and doesn't like telling our stories...its been “his story” of history all along…until now. The movie so far has attached, Bill Duke directing, Hill Harper, Glynn Turman, James Whitmore Jr. and a host of other major actors in which we are in talks with see imdb.com at; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925633/
When you get a chance, also please visit our Alpha Wolf Production website at; http://www.alphawolfprods.com and see our other productions, like Stagecoach Mary, the first Black Woman to deliver mail for Wells Fargo in Montana, in the 1890's, “spread the word”.
Peace.