An African-American veteran with an apparently difficult past, Toliver's character is often given to manic, almost aggressive outbursts throughout the series.

Hill had particularly success amongst African-American veterans of World War I who were embittered over their post-war treatment.

This letter was an indication of the role that African-American veterans would later play in the American civil rights movement.

In a scuffle between a white man and an armed African-American veteran, the white man was killed.

Kimball was the site of the first war memorial building erected in memory of the African-American veterans of World War I.

Timothy Brian Cole (1960-99) was an African-American military veteran and a student wrongly convicted of raping a fellow student in 1985.

African-American veterans and civil rights groups waged a 10-year battle for integration all the way to the Supreme Court.

Some whites resented African-American veterans.

At the same time, African-American veterans exhibited greater militancy and pride as a result of having served to protect their country.

But Katznelson demonstrates that African-American veterans received significantly less help from the G.I. Bill than their white counterparts.