Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney earned the Medal ... Because Carney had the audacity to be Black while fighting for his ...

Henry McMaster signed a bill in August 2024 that will celebrate Small’s legacy as a Civil War hero on the State House ... s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and ...

This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...

James Yates was an African-American who decided to travel ... The documentary "Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War" tells the story of the Lincoln Brigade, composed ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he returned to South Carolina ... had ended slavery and given the vote to black men. Over the next three decades, Smalls ...

For all that, New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle, scholars agree, that deserves better. “It fell to black sergeants to keep the unit organized ...

History remembers him as the hero of the Battle of Great ... It wasn’t until after the Civil War that the 15th Amendment gave voting rights to Black men, albeit with significant obstacles ...

The Defense Department efforts to purge civil rights figures from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney. That link once directed readers to a ...

Run by historian Kevin Levin, this site focuses on the intersection of slavery, race relations and the Civil War. It presents a range of articles on Black Confederates with information about both ...

Photographer Drew Gardner has a passion for history. His long-term project, “The Descendants,” (https://www.drewgardner.com/descendants) wherein he recreates ...

Run by historian Kevin Levin, this site focuses on the intersection of slavery, race relations and the Civil War. It presents a range of articles on Black Confederates with information about both ...