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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 ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...
Bruce Anderson, an African American war hero buried in Amsterdam, fought alongside a Canajoharie white man, Zachariah Neahr, ...
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.
African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds. Story by Associated Press, Mary Green • 1w. C OLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s ...
The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops, made up ...
"It's wonderful to see so many young people out tonight," Ruth E. Hodge said Thursday after her talk at the Bosler Free Library.
More than 100 years after his death, Robert Smalls — a Civil War hero, educator and South Carolina politician — will be ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - 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 ...