South Carolina is erecting its first-ever statue of an African American in honor ... became a prominent political figure ...
President Trump marked Black History Month Thursday by announcing that Prince Estabrook, an enslaved Revolutionary War ...
There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...
They analyze period propaganda posters to understand how racial relations were shifting during World War I, and then write letters from the perspective of African-American soldiers or their family ...
The accepted viewpoint of the day was that African American soldiers were not equally capable as -- and would require more intensive leadership than -- their white counterparts. Furthermore ...
However, the records also state that many prominent African-American political activists of that time like Ida B. Wells-Bartlett condemned America’s government as hypocritical for using black soldiers ...
The U.S. Congress is considering a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 200,000 Black soldiers who fought to ...
Chad Williams, the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Chair in History and the author of “Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era,” sat down with BrandeisNow to discuss ...