Soldiers Executed by the Army After 1917 Riot Receive Military Burial Honors, New VA Headstones

More than 100 years after they were convicted of mutiny and murder and hanged for the 1917 Houston Riot, 17 Black soldiers have finally received military burial honors along with new headstone.

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