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New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...
But one unique story of Black migration and land dispossession is now being told. That's the story of the Kingdom of the ...
The Inland Empire Civil War Round Table will host two programs in February, a virtual program Feb. 19 on African American soldiers’ contributions in the Civil War, and an in-person presentation ...
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white ...
Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...
The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.
Historian Jeff Kannel shares stories of Wisconsin African American soldiers during and after the Civil War, and the simultaneous respect and racial discrimination Black veterans faced.
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.
More than 100 years after his death, Robert Smalls — a Civil War hero, educator and South Carolina politician — will be ...
The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist who ...