If he doesn't want to do "heroic", he might like to make one of a more rabble-rousing type? Like:

Were members of the controversial 364th (Negro) Infantry Regiment killed at Mississippi's Camp Van Dorn to silence their relentless -- and sometimes violent -- demands for equality in a segregated Army?

For an interesting read on this goto:

The Mystery of the 364th | | AlterNet

Even if it is an "alternative" history site, I don’t think this is an example of total flights of fancy. It doesn’t say this did or didn’t happen exactly, and it seems that tracing down the names of the troops who were stationed there at that time seem a bit problematic for some reason. But then again, these seem to have been troublemakers, or maybe just "troubled" young men who had been involved in a couple of other race riots before being stationed at Camp Van Dorn outside of Centerville MS.

This type of thing is more up Spike Lee’s alley, and I have never seen the program referred to as being on The History Channel. But then again I just about never watch that stinker except in the morning at 4:00 am US Mountain Time when Cable in the Classroom comes on for an hour.

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Clint.