In the 19th century, the forced bondage and inhumane treatment of Black Americans fiercely divided the United States, North ...

By 1863, the Civil War was two years old ... which improved their reputation with white Union soldiers. The 54th Regiment faced their finest but horrendous hour two days later- the Battle of ...

Robert Gould Shaw was the white commander of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Regiment, which entered ... buried with his comrades by Confederate soldiers in a mass grave in South Carolina ...