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 ... s legacy as a Civil War hero on the State House grounds. Born into bondage ...

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.

No fewer than 14 African-American soldiers were awarded the ... Literally thousands of Medals of Honor were issued during the Civil War, almost a third of which were later rescinded due to fraud ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...