The Civil War had begun. Immediately following ... with the end of the war, four million African Americans were free. Thousands of former slaves travelled throughout the south, visiting or ...
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...
some lawmakers proposed the re-enslavement of free African Americans, now that the court had ruled them noncitizens. It took the post-Civil War constitutional amendments to overturn that ruling.
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 ...
One of the 10 greatest trees in the world is still holding strong — and with a remarkable tale of strength to pair with it.
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
“Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine” traveling exhibition will be held at the Luzerne County Community College Library through March 8. The National ...