As Seen in the Portland Tribune: Portland Film Festival Review: ‘Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts’

Blacks in mid-1800s made progress through military deployment, but still faced civil right issues of the day.

By: Darleen Ortega  |  October 10, 2022

“Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts” focuses some long-neglected attention on Black soldiers – dubbed “buffalo soldiers” by American Indian tribes against whom Black soldiers were first deployed in the mid-1800s because of the resemblance of their hair to that of their then-plentiful animal neighbors.