Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for ... In one of the bloodiest battles of the war, African American troops from the 9th Louisiana Infantry, the 1st Mississippi Infantry ...

Despite policies of racial segregation and discrimination, African-American soldiers played a significant role from the colonial period to the Korean War ... the demand for civil rights mounting ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ... most of the former slave’s work after the ...

establishing a 380-acre site in Kentucky to honor African-Americans’ role as soldiers during the Civil War. Republicans had pushed for more than a year to establish a national monument at Camp ...

The exhibit is open now and spotlights the vital role Black soldiers played in the Civil War. It features Lincoln-era photographs, letters, documents, and art. “With this exhibi ...

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War”, explains the unknown work of the men who defended the rights denied to them in ...