Despite their military accomplishments, Black soldiers from the Civil War returned home to a society that didn’t treat them ...

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 ...

Early Life and Enslavement: Robert Smalls was born in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, into slavery. His mother, who was ...

Thursday’s wreath-laying ceremony honoring local United States Colored Troops drew attention not simply to Black History ...

While white generals are often at the center of Civil War archival research, Black Civil War veterans and their families ...

The private cemetery is the final resting place for eight Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. "They were men who were colored troops who couldn't be buried in White ...

When the U.S. joined World War I, 1,250 African American ... community spirit of fraternities. These Black officers created the foundation for the Civil Rights Movement, King said.

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 ...