Editing Brownsville, Texas (section)

====1906 Brownsville affair and Black soldiers====
On August 13 and 14, 1906, Brownsville was the site of the [[Brownsville affair]]. Racial tensions were increasing between white townsfolk and black infantrymen who were stationed at Fort Brown. On the night of August 13, one white bartender was killed, and a white police officer was wounded by rifle shots in the street.<ref name="Christian">{{cite web|last = Christian|first = Garna L.|date = June 12, 2010|title = Brownsville Raid of 1906|publisher = Texas State Historical Association|work = The Handbook of Texas Online|url = https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/pkb06|access-date = July 22, 2012|archive-date = August 29, 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120829212131/http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/pkb06|url-status = live}}</ref> Townsfolk, including the mayor, accused the infantrymen of the murders. Without affording them a chance to defend themselves in a hearing, President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] dishonorably discharged the entire 167-member regiment due to their alleged "[[Conspiracy of silence (expression)|conspiracy of silence]]".<ref name="Christian"/> Investigations in the 1970s revealed that the soldiers were not responsible for the attacks, and the [[Richard Nixon|Nixon Administration]] reversed all dishonorable discharges.<ref name="Christian"/> Fort Brown was decommissioned after the end of [[World War II]] in 1945. In 1948, the city and college acquired the land.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cavalry Building, which served as barracks at Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas, until World War I |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2014630473/ |website=www.loc.gov |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |access-date=January 5, 2019 |archive-date=January 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105043417/https://www.loc.gov/item/2014630473/ |url-status=live}}</ref>