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 ...
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Hegseth’s Attacks on Black Troops Evoke Long History of Anti-Racist Struggle
Peter Hegseth is charging forward on the promise to De-Woke The Military, codified in Trump’s executive order to purge “DEI” ...
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 ...
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New exhibit shows how African Americans returned from World War I only to a fight a war at home
These are the first soldiers back that really fought on the firing line. The parade was fine...Mother, Aunt Sadie...and myself went." The diary of African American teenager Jessie Greer ...
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New exhibit at Henderson Library memorializes local African American veterans of World War I
Georgia Southern University history professor Brian K. Feltman, Ph.D., is creating a powerful exhibit titled “More than a ...
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Buffalo Soldiers, the National Parks and the Presidio of Monterey
Interestingly, African American soldiers from this era were called “Buffalo Soldiers,” a term conferred upon them by Plains Indians in respect to the soldiers’ bravery and appearance that ...
‘Bloody Sunday’ 60th anniversary marked in Selma with remembrances and concerns about the future
Alabama this weekend is marking the 60th anniversary of a key event in the civil rights movement, when voting rights marchers ...
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Fresno’s first African American living history day to spotlight Buffalo Soldiers, Black pioneers
On Saturday, March 22, the African American Student Social Worker Association will present “Taste of Freedom,” Fresno’s first ...