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"A Soldier's Play" stars Antoine Pierre Whitfield (from left), Nicholas Bailey and Scott Allen Luke at Raven Theatre.
Although African-American soldiers fought in every major conflagration in which this country has been involved — from the Revolutionary War onward — segregation was officially sanctioned until July, 1948, when President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order that integrated the military and mandated equality …