The 93rd Infantry Division (Colored) was a United States Army division formed in World War I.

The 93rd was comprised of the following regiments:

• 369th Regiment of Infantry, U.S. ("The Harlem Hellfighters")
• 370th Regiment of Infantry, U.S.
• 371st Regiment of Infantry, U.S.
• 372nd Regiment of Infantry, U.S.

These regiments never fought together as a division. Its regiments were attached to the French army because the main American Expeditionary Force (AEF) refused to have African-American soldiers in combat, as did the British, to whom the division was originally offered. (Ironically, the commander of the AEF, Gen. John J. "Black Jack" Pershing had earned his nickname and reputation as a leader in command of the 10th Cavalry , then still a black Buffalo Soldier regiment. While Pershing was an early supporter of having "colored" soldiers in the military, he seems to have bowed to political expediency in this case.)

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