Our Colored Heroes

In this episode, History Detective Tukufu Zuberi is the one asking for help. Tukufu comes to host Elyse Luray for help learning about the origins of an amazing World War I poster he owns. The poster shows an African-American soldier bravely fighting German soldiers. Tukufu thinks it was a recruitment poster for the United States Army, but Elyse isn’t so sure.