buffalo soldier

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buffalo soldier (plural buffalo soldiers)

  1. (US, military, historical) An African-American soldier in the US Army, serving in one of a number of segregated units under white officers, in the period after the US Civil War up to the final racial integration of the US military, at the end of the Korean War.
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