Business Insider6 年
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 ...
PBS12 年
African Americans in the Civil War
Two years into the Civil War, black soldiers prepared for ... In one of the bloodiest battles of the war, African American troops from the 9th Louisiana Infantry, the 1st Mississippi Infantry ...
Cambridge University Press1 年
Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction
This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the Civil War and its legacies.’ Carole Emberton, Author of To Walk About in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner ‘Karen Cook Bell ...
PBS10 年
The Civil War By the Numbers
"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death ... Ratio of Confederate deaths to Union deaths 9:1 — Ratio of African American Civil War troops who died of disease to those that died on the ...
Cambridge University Press1 年
African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941–1945
In the patriotic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, African Americans demanded the right to play their part in the war against Japan. As they soon learned, however, the freedom for which the United States and ...
BBC1 年
The position of African Americans in the early 20th century
Over 1 million African Americans joined the military during World War Two to fight for their country, despite not being treated equally when they were at home During World War Two, over a million ...
BBC6 个月
African-American Civil Rights Movement
all-women US battalion in World War Two. The revolutionary campaigner spoke at the Oxford Union on 3 December 1964 - 60 years ago. The family of the murdered black civil rights activist accuses ...
usace.army.mil2 个月
BLACK AMERICANS IN THE U.S. ARMY
“For more than 200 years, African Americans have participated in every ... Regiment storming Fort Wagner during the Civil War. Click the image to learn more about the "Fighting 54th".
Williamsburg Yorktown Daily2 天
Naval Weapons Station Yorktown Remembers Civil War-Era African American Medal of Honor ...
YORKTOWN — Descendants of Sgt. Maj. Edward Radcliffe, a Civil War-era Medal of Honor Recipient, gathered onboard Naval ...
BBC7 年
Why the fuss over Confederate statues?
In 2015, only days after the 150th anniversary of the Civil War was commemorated, a white man killed nine parishioners in an African-American church in South Carolina. Photos of the man posing ...
Pumpkins as political symbols?
When Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a federal holiday in 1863, abolitionists hailed pumpkins as a symbol of virtue and the ...
Chip Chick on MSN6 个月
She Was The First African American Woman To Open Up A Bank In The United States
Maggie Walker was an African American businesswoman who defied the odds and made history during the atrocities of the Jim ...