There are also artifacts such as drums used for communication during the war ... congressional permission to build an African ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American ... a Confederate ship during the Civil War to sail his family ...

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 Literally thousands of Medals of Honor were issued during the Civil War, almost a third of which were later rescinded due to fraud ...

After the Civil ... war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality and liberty. The passionate man labeled as the “most influential African ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

and the rise of hip hop culture in response to the War on Drugs. Consider the role of mass media in promoting African-American civil rights and disseminating African-American culture. From the ...

When I first read Smalls’ speech while researching political violence in the years after the Civil War, I was stunned. Most estimates of postwar killings of African-Americans amount to about ...

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.

An outspoken supporter of the rights of African Americans is being remembered for his courage on a new Civil War Trails sign ...

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly ... Tensions between the two leaders came to an ugly head during the Civil War Draft Riots of 1863. Many of New York’s working-class citizens were ...

Black Civil War soldier Private Aaron Bromley is buried in an unmarked Monroe grave. A Temperance teen is making sure he's ...