This is the compelling telling of one African-American man that bore courage and valor on his arms as he fought for the equality of his people in an army segregated by race, dominated by White Americans. The world has forgotten the heroes of yesterday and the era of the Roaring 1920’s is no exception, but this era is where long fought battles and waves of change shaped a world we would know to be our present for better and for worse. In the beginning, there was Henry Johnson, who carved his way into history for his people. This story reintroduces his forgotten legacy.

Imagine being black in the early 1900’s as segregation and racial oppression reach heights after the civil war. You’re now using your northern freedom to enlist to fight alongside your parents’ slave masters and their children in the south, from which you came, for world change. Your wife of 5 months has to anguish for 191 nights alone while carrying and birthing your son. You quickly learn that war is cooler than the Hell that is home.

Witness the after effect of a battered man that has fought for a world that wouldn’t even see him as human. This is not just another black’s death; this is the tale of “Black Death” himself. From bus porter to Private, earned Sargent to War Hero.

This is the true battle of Henry Johnson in WWI.