--- title: See WWII Medals of Honor for Black Servicemembers Reunited description: Only 7 black servicemembers from the WWII era have ever received the honor canonical: https://time.com/4064931/wwii-african-american-medal-of-honor-reunited/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-14T16:00:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:35:36.424Z article:section: History og:title: See WWII Medals of Honor for Black Servicemembers Reunited og:description: Only 7 black servicemembers from the WWII era have ever received the honor og:url: https://time.com/4064931/wwii-african-american-medal-of-honor-reunited/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8495eef77a4912d/6988674c2dce01b6ae9e5e9e/mg_7904-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Medals of honor og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See WWII Medals of Honor for Black Servicemembers Reunited twitter:description: Only 7 black servicemembers from the WWII era have ever received the honor twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8495eef77a4912d/6988674c2dce01b6ae9e5e9e/mg_7904-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why Black Soldiers Were Finally Given the Medals of Honor They Deserved > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription.  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Oct 14, 2015 4:00 PM UTC  Five of the 7 medals of honor ever awarded to black soldiers who served in World War II, reunited at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans Five of the 7 medals of honor ever awarded to black soldiers who served in World War II, reunited at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans National WWII Museum  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Oct 14, 2015 4:00 PM UTC Though black soldiers had received the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War-era years when the honor was first created, not a single one of the million-plus black servicemen who served in World War I or World War II received the medal until 1991\. It was then, a whopping 73 years after he gave his life leading an all-black Infantry Regiment during World War I, that Corporal Freddie Stowers was posthumously [given the medal](http://time.com/vault/issue/1991-05-06/page/31/) by President George H.W. Bush. Two years later, the Army initiated a study to [investigate](http://www.history.army.mil/moh/mohb.html) whether there was “racial disparity” in the way World War II Medals of Honor were distributed. When the answer came back a yes, Congress passed a waiver that allowed President Clinton to make amends despite the normal time span for such awards having passed. (A similar waiver had been granted for Stowers.) In 1997, Clinton gave the award to seven African-American men who had served in World War II, only one of whom, Vernon Baker, was still living. “To those that are not here with me…thank you, fellas; well done, and I will always remember you,” Baker [said](http://time.com/vault/issue/1997-01-27/page/17/) at the time. On Wednesday, family members of those seven medal recipients will gather at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans for a commemorative program. As part of the museum’s exhibition _Fighting for the Right to Fight: African American Experiences in World War II_, on view through May of 2016, five of the 1997 medals—shown above—have been reunited for the first time since they were presented nearly two decades ago. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4064931/wwii-african-american-medal-of-honor-reunited/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4064931/wwii-african-american-medal-of-honor-reunited/"},"headline":"Why Black Soldiers Were Finally Given the Medals of Honor They Deserved","datePublished":"2015-10-14T16:00:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:35:36.424Z","description":"Only 7 black servicemembers from the WWII era have ever received the honor","url":"https://time.com/4064931/wwii-african-american-medal-of-honor-reunited/","keywords":["museums","awards","Race","conflict","Civil Rights"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8495eef77a4912d/6988674c2dce01b6ae9e5e9e/mg_7904-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8495eef77a4912d/6988674c2dce01b6ae9e5e9e/mg_7904-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Medals of honor","caption":"Medals of honor","creditText":"National WWII Museum","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/museums/","name":"museums"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4064931/wwii-african-american-medal-of-honor-reunited/","name":"Why Black Soldiers Were Finally Given the Medals of Honor They Deserved"}}]}] ```