An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...

The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the ... This time they were accepted into all-black units. The first of these was the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Colored Regiment, led by white ...

In the meantime, the Civil War Trust has listed New Market Heights ... notably the “Harlem Hellfighters,” a black regiment that gave no ground, lost no prisoners, and, having stayed on the ...

Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in a commission with an African American regiment and a tintype ... Chandler Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks at ...

My great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in 1820, was one of the more than 200,000 names listed on the African American Civil War Memorial in ...

It commemorates the service and sacrifice of Black troops in Arkansas during the Civil War, focusing on the 1st and 2nd ...

African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War”, explains the unknown work of the men who defended the rights denied to them in their own country. James Yates was an African-American who decided to ...

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 ... Colored Infantry Regiment charged the ...

The NAACP’s Luzerne branch and the Luzerne County Historical society hosted a Black History Month hosted ... to the country ...