8x10 Press photo of the 8th Infantry. There is a news agency stamp on back, but it is no longer readable. But a second stamp says Stroecker Photography which is • Mr. M. D. Stroecker - who attended the maneuvers for the Detroit News.
Captioned on back: 8th inf. (colored) of Chgo advances on 6th Inf. of Jefferson Barracks - Mo.
Dated August 18, 1936.
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The 8th Infantry (Colored) in 1890 the Eighth Illinois became the first regiment in the history of the United States to consist entirely of African Americans, from its commanding officer to its enlisted men.
