“One hundred years later, the descendants of three of the hanged men — William Nesbit, Thomas Coleman Hawkins, and Jesse Ball Moore — have petitioned the U.S. government for posthumous pardons, arguing they ‘suffered grave injustices at the hands of the United States when they were executed by hanging after a defective trial by court-martial.’ … Continue reading Seeking justice for the mass hanging of black soldiers after the bloody 1917 Houston riots