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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carole Emberton, Author of To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner ‘Karen Cook Bell’s edited work lowers the volume of nineteenth century chatter to discern the small yet ...

In the patriotic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, African Americans demanded the right to play their part in the war against Japan. As they soon learned, however, the freedom for which the United States and ...

nurse and cook during the Civil War Olatunji Osho-Williams A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's struggle to ...

Or is the elder Smalls who fought for education for all and to keep the gains African Americans made during the Civil War the man most worth publicly memorializing? Smalls would see a new ...

“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 ...

He gained notoriety during the Civil War after posing as a confederate ... securing civil rights for African Americans. "The man has done so many great things, it's just a travesty he has not ...

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 ...

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

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 ...