Smithsonian collections document the patriotic service of African Americans throughout our Nation's history, from the American Revolution up to today. At the National Museum of African American ...

The tense atmosphere would explode that summer in New York City, in the worst riots in American history. The May 1, 1863 New York Tribune summed up many Northerners' feelings about African ...

Most estimates of postwar killings of African-Americans amount to about 4,000 public lynchings committed between 1877 and 1968. But what about those who were assassinated or disappeared before ...

“If they were placed next to the white units, they [African Americans] were basically trench diggers, dig the trenches, get rid of the waste…The French said, ‘Hey, we’ll take those Black ...

When the U.S. military decided to assign three African American engineering regiments to the Alaska Highway project, it departed from its usual segregationist policies. Since the Civil War ...

That's thanks to an oral history database called The HistoryMakers that contains more than 3,000 interviews with African Americans from across the U.S. who helped shape the country. The collection ...

Stowers was an African-American and, when the United States entered ... Jemadar Mir Mast: deserting to get back to India in WW1. videoJemadar Mir Mast: deserting to get back to India in WW1 ...

The commander of the American Expeditionary Force, General John Pershing had refused to lead black soldiers into battle. Most of the third of a million African Americans drafted into the US Army ...

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 ...