Blacks on the Battlefield: Learning About the Role of African-Americans in the Civil War After watching excerpts from the episodes Chandler Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks at ...

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War”, explains the unknown work of the men who defended the rights denied to them in ...

When I first read Smalls’ speech while researching political violence in the years after the Civil War, I was stunned. Most estimates of postwar killings of African-Americans amount to about ...

Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia.

and the rise of hip hop culture in response to the War on Drugs. Consider the role of mass media in promoting African-American civil rights and disseminating African-American culture. From the ...

During the Civil War, African Americans fought for full participation in American society and as surgeons and nurses for the Union Army, they found themselves in new and familiar roles as healers ...

An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek.