“When I was coming up we had no role models that we could talk to. We didn’t know we had Buffalo Soldiers. If we had known about that it would have made a difference. Now they have a historical, tangible reference point.”
EDDIE DIXON, a former member of the military and the sculptor of a memorial at West Point honoring the U.S. Army’s famed Black cavalry who for decades taught military horsemanship to white cadets there.
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