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Wisconsin African Americans in the Civil War. Special | 52m 34s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Historian Jeff Kannel shares stories of Wisconsin African American soldiers during and after the ...
The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.
Smith has been working toward this moment since 1992, when, as a DC Council member, he secured congressional permission to ...
The Inland Empire Civil War Round Table will host two programs in February, a virtual program Feb. 19 on African American soldiers’ contributions in the Civil War, and an in-person presentation ...
A new Civil War trail sign has been installed in Plymouth to honor African-American soldiers who served in the Civil War. The dedication ceremony, held on Saturday, featured re-enactors from Tryon ...
The professor said the contributions of African-American soldiers and their families were erased in much of the country after the Civil War because of the “Lost Cause” ideology – the belief ...
Leading historians aim to restore and grow respect for enslaved people and their descendants on Juneteenth, commemorating the ...
Battles was an African American Civil War soldier and one of Moorhead's first residents around 1873. He later opened one of the city's first barber shops. Chris Flynn / The Forum .
“These hills, these lakes, regardless of who held title, had been the home place of African-American communities connected through marriage, labor and worship since before the Civil War ...
These warriors came to embody Black Civil War service, if not African American patriotism. As the war raged, Sergeant Major Lewis Douglass of the Fifty-Fourth gloried in the regiment's performance.