A year later, a postscript: The Army has finally hung a portrait of Pvt. Fitz Lee, Buffalo Soldier, at the rebranded Fort Lee in Virginia. Here’s my article on Fitz and the Trump administration program that restored Confederate names to U.S. bases. Next: The portrait.
The Mysterious Life and Afterlife of Private Fitz Lee (Gift Article)
For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the Pentagon found a use for him.
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