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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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The African-Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War
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 ...
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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 ...
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UNSUNG HEROES: On the trail of the U.S. Colored Troops in Vicksburg
By Jim Beaugez Under cover of darkness during the early hours of June 7, 1863, an army of 1,500 Confederate troops approached ...
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 ...