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Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the ...
PROVIDENCE − Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's ... "In 1863, the 14th RI’s First Battalion was ordered to Louisiana, soon joined by the Second and Third.
President Donald Trump's announcement is the administration's latest move in its concerted effort to shift the people and ...
The Milwaukee Juneteenth parade honors Anna Mae Robertson, a WWII hero and civil rights activist, as her family carries on her legacy after she died recently.
The more relevant, and worrying, parallel may be the period from 1957 to the end of 1968, when military forces actively ...
Col Brij Mohan Rai Mehta In early 1959, my father, who was in the Army, was posted from Mhow to Bhuj, and then moved with a ...
A Civil War historian noticed the changes to Arlington ... nearly 100 years after his World War I heroics. Johnson’s all-Black battalion, nicknamed the “Harlem Hellfighters,” was sent ...
In November 1960, three 6-year-old Black girls climbed 18 steps into history, forever changing the face of American education ...
At the Camp William Penn Museum in Cheltenham, thousands of Black Civil War soldiers are remembered for their contributions ...
The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black ...