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Camp Logan race riots | 1918
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During the summer of 1918, a black military policeman stationed at Camp Logan, Texas, complained to two white policemen about their use of force in arresting a black woman. He was pistol whipped by the police and thrown into the patrol wagon with the woman. When a second black MP tried to determine what happened, he was also beaten and jailed. Black troops from Camp Logan learned of the incident, broke into an ammunition storage room, armed themselves with rifles, and marched on the police station in Houston. A group of off-duty police, national guardsmen and civilians confronted them and an all night battle ensued. National Guard units eventually restored order, after 12 whites were killed and 14 wounded. One soldier was killed and four injured. Texas congressmen demanded that all black troops be removed from Texas, and four days later Secretary of War Newton Baker ordered no more blacks to be inducted into the Army. Sixty-five black soldiers from Camp Logan were sentenced to jail, some for life.
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