The public is invited to a free showing of the award-winning Civil War movie “Glory” on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 2 p.m. at the ...
Westside Legends, in partnership with Berkshire County NAACP, ROPE and Milltown Funding, seeks an artist or artist team to lead a three month painted mural project for Durant Park that ...
During the Civil War, Douglass recruited Black men to fight for the Union, including two of his sons who served in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment. A memorialto the famed Civil ...
he spoke of “Glory,” Edward Zwick’s 1989 Civil War drama about the first all-Black regiment in the US military, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. In the film, Washington played an ...
Robert Gould Shaw was the white commander of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Regiment, which entered battle in mid-1863. Shaw was killed soon after at Fort Wagner and buried with his comrades by ...