The soldiers were convicted after a brawl broke out when they marched into the city after learning that a white police officer had pistol-whipped and killed a Black corporal.
The conviction of 110 Black soldiers charged more than a century ago for mutiny, murder and assault in the 1917 Houston Riot has been overturned, the Army announced.
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In a ceremony at the Buffalo Soldier Museum in Houston, Army officials said that historians found many "irregularities" in the way the charges were leveled.
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