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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 ...
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Honoring Black Civil War soldiers buried in Camden's historic Butler Cemetery
Rev. Floyd White III saluting a tombstone in the historic Butler Cemetery in Camden, New Jersey / Credit: CBS Philadelphia The private cemetery is the final resting place for eight Black soldiers who ...
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Black Civil War soldiers massacred in Simpsonville, Kentucky, remembered 160 years later
SIMPSONVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in Simpsonville, Kentucky. A snow-covered stretch of ...
A parade celebrating Frederick Douglass is canceled after Maryland National Guard drops out following Trump administration anti-DEI orders
Organizers have canceled a parade planned to honor the 207th birthday of the Maryland native and famed abolitionist after the ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
The Railroad Workers Behind the Civil Rights Movement
Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...
Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and ... When the Civil War started in the spring of 1861, Tubman put aside her fight against ...
Black Enterprise5d
Bill Introduced To Honor 200,000 Black Union Soldiers With Gold Medal
A new bill aims to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the African Americans who fought for the Union in the Civil War ... While Black women were not allowed to officially enlist as soldiers ...
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Honoring Black Civil War soldiers buried in Camden's historic Butler Cemetery
Dempsey Daniel Butler arrived in Camden, New Jersey, in the 1840s. An abolitionist and ardent supporter of the Underground Railroad, Butler opened a general store in the city. Through his business ...
Ohio is rich in Black history. Here are some historical Black Ohio facts you probably didn't know
From Civil War ties to the nation's first private HBCU, Ohio's Black history runs deep. Here's what to know this Black History Month.
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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
Slave Trading in the Civil War South A Harper's Weekly illustration of Confederate soldiers driving Black Americans south in 1862 Library of Congress In the late summer of 1865, a few months after ...
USA Today8d
Buffalo Soldiers: Rockland honors Black military role models amid warnings of lost history
The cemetery is the final resting place for men who escaped slavery to fight in the Union Army in the Civil War, Buffalo soldiers from the Spanish-American war and matriarchs of the Black families ...