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The Civil War and emancipation
The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the ... where starvation and disease led to a high death rate. Northern citizens, black and white alike, stepped in to fill the gap.
The Black church’s role in Civil Rights and social justice continues to grow
The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its ...
This Fort Worth native joined about 90 African Americans who fought in Spain’s civil war
Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...
Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to undo the Civil War
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...
Doctor with Hamilton ties, 1st Black man at White House reception, among 'courageous' Civil War surgeons
Over 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with U.S. President ...
Gary Franks: Black history and the Holocaust
In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...
What Black history in pre-Civil War Cincinnati looked like, per a celebrated scholar
Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...