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  • 1 - An All-Black Post in the Middle of the Arizona Desert

  • Pauline Peretz, Université Paris 8
  • Book:
    A Black Army
    Published online:
    16 June 2025
    Print publication:
    17 July 2025, pp 15-37

  • Summary

    The choice of Fort Huachuca in Arizona to host the largest number of black soldiers in the country’s history can be explained by invoking its nineteenth-century history as a base for the buffalo soldiers, its remoteness from any white community, and the state’s transformation into a training ground and a rear base for the war effort. But the fort was woefully underequipped to train so many men, and the local community remained highly suspicious, despite the expectation of new resources.