The Root

Black American Spies and Why They Were The Best

Dubbed the “baddest bitch in history” by Comedy Central, Bowser became known as one of the Union’s most daring Civil War ...
WTOP News

African American Civil War Museum honors the Black soldiers who ended the Civil War on Juneteenth

This video is no longer available. The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth Thursday with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, ...

Blairsville museum shares the stories of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond

The Blairsville Underground Railroad Museum shares the stories of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction and beyond ...
PBS

Wisconsin African Americans in the Civil War

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 ...
Yahoo

Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument

The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops, made up ...
wjla

African-American Civil War Museum moves to new location

One of Washington's lesser-known museums is re-locating with the goal of attracting and educating more people. The African-American Civil War Museum pays tribute to the thousands of black Americans ...
The Sentinel

Young people learn many local blacks fought in Civil War

"It's wonderful to see so many young people out tonight," Ruth E. Hodge said Thursday after her talk at the Bosler Free Library. Speaking to a packed room filled with young faces, the retired state ...
The Trentonian

Trenton’s Locust Hill Cemetery will honor African American veterans of the Civil War Saturday

The lives of African American veterans of the Civil War will gain recognition with a special memorial service Locust Hill Cemetery in Trenton. At least ten Black soldiers lie interred in the small ...
The St. Louis American

Civil rights historian Matthew Delmont opens SLCL’s Black History Celebration

County Library is launching its 2026 Black History Celebration with a historian whose work refuses to let America forget the stories it once tried to bury. On Monday, Feb. 2, civil rights scholar and ...
WDBJ

Monument honoring Black Civil War soldiers unveiled in Rocky Mount

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - A long-overlooked chapter of Franklin County’s history is now etched in bronze. Community members gathered Sunday afternoon on the grounds of First Baptist Church in Rocky Mount ...
insider.si.edu

The struggle in Black and brown : African American and Mexican American relations during the civil rights era / edited and with an introduction by Brian D. Behnken

Introduction / Brian D. Behnken -- Not similar enough: Mexican American and African American civil rights struggles in the 1940s / Lisa Y. Ramos -- The movement in the mirror: civil rights and the ...