Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
Civil rights groups say push to dismantle Education Department will undo hard-won gains
The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at ...
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Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers hailed from Sea Islands. Beaufort park will tell unsung story
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek ...
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Smoke and memory: A Civil War painting endures in Minnesota’s Capitol
At the Minnesota State Capitol, Howard Pyle’s Civil War painting “The Battle of Nashville” stands as a vivid tribute to ...
Arlington Cemetery website drops links for Black, Hispanic, and women veterans
The cemetery website unpublished links to lists of notable graves, walking tours and other material about Black, Hispanic and ...
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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
Harriet Tubman: The legacy of a freedom fighter and abolitionist
Explore Harriet Tubman's legacy as a freedom fighter. Discover her role in the Underground Railroad and beyond.
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Defense Department wipes ‘Glory’ Civil War hero from website
The Defense Department (DoD) efforts to purge civil rights figures from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney. That link once directed readers to ...
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Edda L. Fields-Black honored for her phenomenal literary achievement
EDDA L. FIELDS-BLACK is the proud daughter of Eddie Fields, esq., and icon Dorothy Jenkins Fields, founder of the Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater. PHOTO ...