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 ...
Hosted on MSN1mon
After Decades, the Full African American Civil War Memorial Museum Is Finally Coming
On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina. The fierce assault against the Confederate Army—portrayed in the film ...
CNN25d
Obama asks Americans to remember fallen troops
But the president decided to start what may become a new tradition by sending a wreath to the African-American Civil War Memorial at Vermont Avenue and U Street Northwest in Washington.
Washington Times2y
Topic - African-American Civil War Memorial
The African American Civil War Memorial, at the corner of Vermont Avenue, 10th St, and U Street NW in Washington, D.C., commemorates the service of 209,145 African-American soldiers and sailors ...
Smithsonian Magazine1y
A New Memorial Remembers the Thousands of African-Americans Who Were Lynched
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (artist rendering ... of color,” says Stevenson (who received a Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Social Progress in 2012).
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
PBS2y
Civil War: Blacks on the Battlefield
Spotlight on a letter from a young Union soldier interested in a commission with an African American regiment and ... the episodes Chandler Tintype and Civil War Letters, each of which looks ...
Rolling Out1y
National Museum of African American History and Culture
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established ...