In their first major battle, at Port Hudson, Louisiana on May 27, 1863, African Americans proved their courage beyond a doubt. Port Hudson served as the linchpin of Confederate control over the ...

the first African American justice. But a House effort to remove statues honoring Confederates stalled in the Senate. One of those Confederate statues stands in front of the office of the House ...

White - Author, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House Before dawn on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls stealthily took command of a Confederate steamer ...

Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in a commission with an African American regiment and ... who fought together in the Confederate Army. After watching excerpts from ...

Donald Trump is bringing Confederate statues back ... The order goes on to target the African American history museum in particular for allegedly promoting the idea that “American and Western ...

In response, Confederate veterans founded the Ku Klux ... leaders of the reconstructed state governments and the African-American citizens they tried to protect. Scholarly attention ...

Born in New Orleans in 1812, Armand Lanusse was a free man of color who worked as an educator, editor, poet, writer and ...

Nascar driver Bubba Wallace, the only full-time African-American in the top-flight US motor-racing series, has got the organisation to ban the Confederate flag from events. He said: "No one should ...