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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 ...
Pieces of Our Past: The Snowden Memorial at Ellsworth Cemetery
Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the ...
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African American Civil War hero to be honored outside SC’s state grounds
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has ... s work after the Civil War. The Smalls statue would ...
Washington Times23d
Long forgotten, Black South African servicemen who died in WWI are finally honored with a memorial
Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no known grave have been recognized with a memorial featuring 1,772 names. An inscription ...
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Civil War: Blacks on the Battlefield
Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in a commission with an African American regiment and ... the episodes Chandler Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks ...
New Black history exhibit on Civil War era opens at Riley Museum
Library events: Leon County celebrates Black History Month with library events, resources ...
Military Times22d
After 106 years, Black South African WWI troops honored with memorial
In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.