Tours of the Old Barracks Museum are included in the admission price. Trained in classical and contemporary acting forms, for both the stage and film, he has played characters ranging from Shakespeare’s Richard III to the hopelessly confused teenager, Bleeker, in "Juno." Gray, 20, is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy’s conservatory program, in New York. to 4 p.m., Chadd Gray, an actor from Voorhees, will perform a 20-minute vignette on the life of Eugene Bullard, the first black fighter pilot. 26, at the top of every hour from 10 a.m. Sammons will give a lecture on his book, "Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality." Sammons is a professor of history at New York University with special interests in African-American history, military history, black autobiography, film history and sports history. Other authentically equipped and dressed reenactors will represent the War of 1812, the Buffalo Soldiers of the American West and the Harlem Hellfighters of World War I fame. World War II will be represented by The 5th Platoon.
The Civil War will be represented by The 6th Regiment United States Colored Troops. The Revolutionary War will be represented by the predominately African American Rhode Island Regiment. 25 and 26, the public is invited to learn about the impact made on war efforts by African American soldiers throughout American history.Īt the Old Barracks Museum, African American historians, reenactors and veterans will present artifacts, information and insight highlighting the integral role African Americans had in U.S.
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