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Henry Johnson, Black World War I Hero, To Receive Medal of Honor Nearly 100 Years After His Heroism

In 1918 during World War I, Germany was getting the better of France, so much so that United States Gen. John Pershing loaned troops—the Harlem Hellfighters, a battalion of Black men from New York.

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