Groups & Organizations

Military units, political organizations, and named movements — a narrower view of the same sourced entries covered in Eras & Movements.

• Buffalo Soldiers

  African American regiments of the US Army created 1866, the first black regulars in peacetime

• The Tuskegee Airmen

  African-American military pilots during World War II

• The Black Panther Party

  US black power organization (1966–1982)

• The Black Lives Matter Movement / Contemporary Civil Rights

  social movement originating in the USA