The Post was named after two of it's early members; Legionnaire Bryant and Legionnaire Best.

Notable Member - William Johnson. By 1990, the Post's membership had dwindled down to five men, but even then, Johnson fought to keep 215 alive -- ensuring its dues were always paid, pleading with state and national officers to allow its legacy to continue. And thanks to him, its charter was never pulled -- even when he was the only active member, even after that house on Pine was demolished and meetings were moved to the Disabled American Veterans headquarters on Patrick Street. "For a while, it looked like it was gonna fade off and drop out of sight," Johnson said. "Let's just say it didn't quite happen that way." Johnson believes the spirit of the old "215 on Pine" lives on through those 55 local veterans who now make up the county's once all-black American Legion.

It was Wayne County's once all-black American Legion Post.