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Brownsville Affair: Shooting in Brownsville, Texas

On the night of August 13, shots were fired in Brownsville, Texas, killing one white civilian and wounding others, and local authorities immediately blamed Black soldiers of the 25th Infantry, touching off the Brownsville Affair.

Brownsville Affair: Shooting in Brownsville, Texas

The incident provoked a federal investigation and a national controversy over racial discrimination and military justice that became a defining civil‑military and racial scandal of the Roosevelt administration.

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