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Photo by @jaheezus for @everydayblackamerica Buffalo Soldier Earnest Lomax-Jones, 11, poses as a young Buffalo Soldier as the Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club commemorates fallen African American Civil War Veterans at the African American Civil War Memorial on May 29, 2016, in Washington, DC. The event was part of the "Buffalo Thunder" motorcycle ride that is an accompaniment to Rolling Thunder. Following the U.S. Civil War, regiments of African-American men known as buffalo soldiers served on the western frontier, battling Indians and protecting settlers. The buffalo soldiers included two regiments of all-black cavalry, the 9th and 10th cavalries, formed after Congress passed legislation in 1866 that allowed African Americans to enlist in the country’s regular peacetime
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