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Old-fashioned images evoke the complicated history of Black military service
For Black Americans, the military can offer opportunities and the chance to serve but a legacy of inequality remains.
Staff Sgt. Vanessa Lewis Williams sits under a tree for a tintype portrait at the Georgia Army National Guard Readiness Center in Macon, Georgia. She serves in the 48th Brigade as a mechanic.Photograph by Rashod Taylor, National Geographic
Photographs byRashod Taylor
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Fulton Porter wanted to be a doctor, but I didn t want to go to medical school with any loans,” he says. “And I always had this kind of urge to serve sometime in the military. So he enlisted.