General
- Nickname : Black Panther Division
- Shoulder patch : Red bordered circle, containing black panther's head against an orange background. The black panther symbolized the attributes of a good infantryman : ability to kill, to be aggressive, alert, stealthy, cunning, agile, and strong.
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“We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write, on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)