That realization crystallized on August 23, 1917. On that hot summer day, police chased a man into the home of a Black woman, Mrs. Sarah Travers. While she wasn’t the object of their manhunt, she was the one whom they dragged out of her house “half naked.” With neighbors everywhere, a grown woman barely clothed and exposed. The humiliation was too much. Private Alonzo Edwards of the Twenty-Fourth offered to pay whatever her fine was so that she could get back in the house with some dignity. The cops beat him savagely for that. Then they arrested him. When Corporal Charles Baltimore, an MP,
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