Half of the soldiers serving at Fort Concho from 1869 to 1885 were African American. The fort will celebrate Buffalo Soldier ...

A parcel of land on an existing Revolutionary War battlefield in Eutawville is being developed into a park to be named after a Revolutionary War soldier and freed African American slave Jim Capers.

THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND THE BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL TO RESEARCH AND SHED LIGHT ON THE 12 BLACK REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO CALLED EXETER HOME AFTER THE WAR. AT THE TIME ...

In April 1917, the United States declared war on ... was an African American. The commander of the American Expeditionary Force, General John Pershing had refused to lead black soldiers into ...

THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND THE BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL TO RESEARCH AND SHED LIGHT ON THE 12 BLACK REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES WHO CALLED EXETER HOME AFTER THE WAR. AT THE TIME ...

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 ...

As early as the 1650s, enslaved Africans escaped into the American wilderness to form their own separate communities -- a New World adaptation of an African form of resistance. These maroons (or ...

Drury Lane was the site of a club exclusively for black soldiers. "They had been disillusioned with the European war ... African Congresses was held. This was organised by the African American ...

Also honored and recognized in a county joint proclamation was the late James Harden Daugherty, a long-time Silver Spring ...

In the aftermath of the battle, the integration effort was well received, and the African American soldiers were evaluated as having done "well." By the end of the war, more than 695,000 African ...