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RSS FeedsBlack fighting `369th Experience Bandī ties HBCU musicians to WWI Black History
(WorldNews Music)

 
 

13 july 2019 23:47:36

 
Black fighting `369th Experience Bandī ties HBCU musicians to WWI Black History
(WorldNews Music)
 


In 1919 when the Treaty of Versailles ended WWI, two years after the U.S. entered the fight with France and Great Britain against Germany, 44 Black colleges existed. Today, 100 years later, there are 101 public and private HBCUs, and they and their students are playing an important part in reclaiming the role African American soldiers and artists played in that conflict. Thanks to the United States World War I Centennial Commission, Coca Cola and the network of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), a band of 42 accomplished musicians from HBCUs are traveling around the country playing the sounds of the 369th Infantry Regimental Band that made its mark in history during WWI...


 
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