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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African ...

Since the Civil War, African American and white units ... National Archives The military's view toward African Americans during World War II reflected that of the wider American culture.

“For more than 200 years, African Americans have participated in ... 54th Massachusetts Regiment storming Fort Wagner during the Civil War. Click the image to learn more about the "Fighting ...

Maggie Walker was an African American businesswoman who defied the odds and made history during the atrocities of the Jim ...

Then, leaders in the party refuse to say the Civil War is ... openly during the interview. Describing “The Grift,” his second authored work, as a reclamation of Black American political ...

Talk of repaying African-Americans has been around since the Civil War era, when centuries of slavery officially ended. Some experts have calculated the worth of black labour during slavery as ...

By Jim Beaugez Under cover of darkness during the early hours of June 7, 1863, an army of 1,500 Confederate troops approached ...

Most Confederate monuments were not built until nearly a generation after the war ended in 1865, mostly due to a lack of funds during ... rights for African-Americans. "The civil rights movement ...

“These hills, these lakes, regardless of who held title, had been the home place of African-American communities connected through marriage, labor and worship since before the Civil War ...

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 ...