The Washington Informer1d
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 ...
Black Voices: Black women share their stories of serving in the military
Members of the National Association of Black Military Women Charleston Chapter are proud of their military service and want ...
The Atlantic5y
Heroes of a Civil War Victory That History Forgot
The white officers who led the charge ... is just a small part of the history of black soldiers’ valor during America’s wars, but no Civil War battle has a more compelling claim to a place ...
Harriet Tubman led military raids during the Civil War as well as her better-known slave rescues
Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...
PBS4y
Race and the Army During World War II
Since the Civil War, African American and white units had been kept separate, with African American units serving under the command of white officers. African American troops line up, National ...
PBS1y
Civil War: Blacks on the Battlefield
After watching excerpts from the episodes Chandler Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks at how blacks were involved on both sides in the fighting of the Civil War, students engage in ...