Danny Glover Buffalo Soldiers

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Another film showing heroic black soldiers of the Cavalry Regiment was Danny Glover performs in Buffalo Soldier. The film Buffalo Soldier accurately portrays the racial tension in the western frontier between different color soldiers. Danny Glover’s character a black Sergeant Washington Wyatt in the army stirs up problems with other white soldiers as well as follow black soldiers. The film also portrays some truths about the campaign. The black buffalo soldiers have to relinquish their barracks when the white soldiers arrive. Even one scene going far as having the black soldier walking their horses in a town, but the white soldiers can still ride theirs. In the film ending, Wyatt gets honored by his fellow officer, and even saluted back by

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