Black Civil War soldiers to be honored with 7-foot bronze monument
Seventy Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount ...
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After Decades, the Full African American Civil War Memorial Museum Is Finally Coming
Smith has been working toward this moment since 1992, when, as a DC Council member, he secured congressional permission to build an African American Civil War memorial on federal land in the U ...
Obama asks Americans to remember fallen troops
Barack Obama marked his first Memorial Day as president on Monday, calling on Americans to remember U.S. troops who died in ...
As Arlington Cemetery Scrubs The Links Of Black Veterans, Legacies Are Becoming Invisible — Even Mine
As part of the DEI directive brought on by the White House, Arlington National Cemetery scrubbed the familes of Black, ...
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African-American women's battalion from WWII honored
ARLINGTON, Virginia (CNN)-- The honors were late but still well-received Wednesday for members of the first all-African-American, all-female unit to serve overseas in World War II. During the war ...
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FDR and The New Deal
She created a stir when she helped to move Marian Anderson’s performance at the Lincoln Memorial ... entered World War II, Roosevelt quickly moved to shore up African American support and ...