Bill Introduced To Honor 200,000 Black Union Soldiers With Gold Medal
There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...
The Black church’s role in Civil Rights and social justice continues to grow
The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its ...
Doctor with Hamilton ties, 1st Black man at White House reception, among 'courageous' Civil War surgeons
Over 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with U.S. President ...
BHM: Changes to Forsyth County since the Civil War
Not long after the Civil War, hundreds of Black families lived and thrived in Forsyth County, owning their own land and creating wealth. But in 1912, that development came to a halt after a white ...
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Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
Though traditional accolades escaped Tubman for most of her life, she did achieve an honor usually reserved for white officers on the Civil War battlefield. After she led a successful raid of a ...
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Educating Black People after the Civil War
During Black History Month, it is important to look at how far the education system for Black people has come. When slavery ...
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Bill to Honor Civil War’s Black Soldiers Reintroduced, Coinciding with Black History Month
The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...
What Black history in pre-Civil War Cincinnati looked like, per a celebrated scholar
Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...