Sunday, December 30, 2018

Negro Troops To Parade in Kinston Tomorrow, Dec. 31, 1918

From The Commonwealth, Scotland Neck, N.C., Dec. 31, 1918

Negro Troops to Parade Tomorrow

By Associated Press

Kinston, N.C., Dec. 31—For the first time since the war between the States negroes in military uniform will parade through Kinston’s streets Wednesday and they will get a reception far different from that accorded the darkies in bluecoats who in small numbers came into the town during the ‘60s. The Emancipation Day program here calls for a procession to be headed by discharged and furloughed men in khaki. More than 100 will be in line. They will carry no arms, of course.

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