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Yvonne Condell, a former Minnesota State University Moorhead professor, cut the ribbon during a public dedication ceremony of the monument in honor of Felix Battles on Saturday, Nov. 4, outside of the ...

Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser helped break ground on the future African American Civil War Memorial Museum housed at the Grimke School in an Oct. 17 ceremony. The museum tells the stories of ...

Historian Jeff Kannel shares stories of Wisconsin African American Civil War soldiers. Historian Jeff Kannel shares stories of Wisconsin African American soldiers during and after the Civil War, and ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Rita Roberts talked about the American slave system and how the enslaved rejected the system. The Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston ...

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For more than a century following the Civil War, the role of African-Americans in that conflict was either downplayed or completely ignored. Black soldiers even were banned from marching in the ...

Founded in 1999, The African American Civil War Memorial Museum (AACWM) shares the largely unknown stories of the USCT who fought for freedom. The Museum aims to serve as an educational resource for ...

UNIONVILLE — Unionville, a historic town in Talbot County founded by African Americans who fought in the Civil War, was home to an early Memorial Day remembrance today organized by the Col. David L.

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the middle of the night in the summer of 2021 when I finally found the missing piece of my family history. My great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into ...