In this lesson, students watch a clip from the episode Our Colored Heroes in which they learn about Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson, two African-American World War I heroes. They analyze period ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

The African American troops were seen as sophisticated ... This clip is from the series The World's War. Students could build on their literacy skills by drafting a letter to the NAACP magazine ...

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 ...

videoThe Chinese Labour Corps in World War One David Olusoga investigates the contribution of the least acknowledged group from the Empire - Chinese labourers. The experience of African American ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...

In this lesson, students watch a clip from the episode Our Colored Heroes in which they learn about Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson, two African-American World War I heroes. They analyze period ...