Adding three African American regiments of engineers to the four white regiments, Colonel (soon Brigadier General) William M. Hoge assembled roughly 11,000 troops, about a third of whom were ...

When the U.S. military decided to assign three African American engineering regiments to the Alaska Highway project, it departed from its usual segregationist policies. Since the Civil War ...

Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said Jackson had helped to break down barriers for African Americans and women in engineering and technology. The story of Mary Jackson was told in the 2016 film ...