“[A]bolish the name and appearance of a Black Corps.”

“[A]bolish the name and appearance of a Black Corps.”

— George Washington

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Title: Wikiquote: George Washington
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Recommendations to reorganize two Rhode Island regiments into integrated rather than segregated groups, in a letter to Major General William Heath (29 July 1780), in The Writings of George Washington, 19:93. According to historian Robert A. Selig, the Continental Army exhibited a degree of integrati

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