Honored as Heroes: Analyzing the Role of Race in World War I Students learn about two African-American World War I heroes and analyze period propaganda posters to understand how racial relations ...

When I first read Smalls’ speech while researching political violence in the years after the Civil War, I was stunned. Most estimates of postwar killings of African-Americans amount to about ...

Many African Americans have contributed their quota to world history ... she also served as a spy and nurse during the Civil War and advocated for women’s suffrage, leaving a lasting legacy ...

Now a website honoring Sgt. Henry Johnson has gone down. Johnson is an African-American World War I hero from Albany, known for fighting off a raid of German soldiers to save the lives of his ...

"Moreover, the only military unit that was commanded by an African-American before the Second World War", Domingo says. blacks, whites, Latinos and Jews fought together; there was no segregation.

In 1916 South Africa approved the formation of the South African Native Labour Corps (SANLC), a new group of men created due to a shortage of labour in World War One. This video explains who the ...

Sgt. Henry Johnson is an African American World War I hero from Albany. He’s perhaps best-known for fighting off a raid of German soldiers to save the lives of his fellow Americans. Johnson’s ...