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Did you know that many Black women dressed as Buffalo Soldiers and fought in the Indian War? Me neither.https://wp.me/p2v8yf-61g #letitiawright #surrounded

From the start, as Mo Washington walks into a bar and moments later buys a stagecoach seat with an air of a free, not enslaved woman, one knows Letitia Wright is about to take audiences on a journey of strength, freedom and choices. Five years after the end of the Civil War, a former soldier (Letitia Wright) disguises herself as a man while traveling west to lay claim on a gold mine. After…

This postcard is for sale here The first African American woman, a U.S. soldier, served disguised as a man in 1866. Cathay Williams was an American soldier. An African-American woman, she enlisted in the United States Army under the pseudonym William Cathay. Williams became the first female to enlist and the only documented woman to serve in the U.S. Army while posing as a man during the Indian…