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African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided ... most of the former slave’s work after the Civil War.
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Black Civil War soldiers massacred in Simpsonville, Kentucky, remembered 160 years later
Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in ...
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“All in Ironton are Black Except…”—A Civil War Confederate Spy Map
A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its ...
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Black Panthers: The African American Soldiers of the 761st Tank Battalion Who Fought at the Battle of the Bulge
They made a good first impression, but I have no faith in the inherent fighting ability of the race. This was what General ...
South Carolina statue honoring Black hero Robert Smalls will stare down a segregationist
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist ...
History Cautions Against Pardons for Jan. 6 Rioters
After initially prosecuting those who tried to overthrow an election, Presidents Grant and Hayes backed down—with ...
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From The Civil War To 2024: New Book Unravels The History Of Black Republicanism
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I am a cable news contributor and professor of journalism. The Republican Iowa Caucus is in the rearview mirror and the 2024 presidential ...