Buffalo Soldiers National Museum

The museum chronicles the African American military experience in America’s great wars: the Revolutionary War, Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII and others.
We have had the opportunity through a number of museums, especially ones in the west to see pieces of the history of the African Americans in the military. This museum has done an excellent job in putting the history of their many contributions together. The Buffalo Soldiers got their name while fighting the American Indians in the West. They kept this name until the military was integrated. The story goes that the American Indian called them Buffalo Soldiers because they fought fiercely, like the buffalo, and many had the curly hair like that of the buffalo.