John Haymond

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John A. Haymond is an award-winning historian who researches and writes on topics of conflict history, the history of military law, and social justice issues. He teaches history in Tacoma, Washington. In 2018, he served as the lead historian at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, on a military project to commemorate the 1917 Houston Mutiny courts-martial and executions. He is the coauthor and lead historian of the Houston Incident Clemency Petition sponsored by the NAACP, a 120-page historical and legal study that was submitted to the Secretary of the Army in 2020. He is also a veteran of twenty-one years in the US Army.

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Black Soldiers, White Laws

The Tragedy of the 24th Infantry in 1917 Houston

By John Haymond

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The first full and definitive narrative of one of the most shocking and largely unknown events of racial injustice in US history: the execution of nineteen Black soldiers in Texas.

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