The Militia Act, passed by the United States Congress in 1862, allowed enslaved men to fight for their country during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the United States Colored Troops, made up ...

An African American Union soldier of the American Civil War, seated, in a studio portrait, circa 1863. Credit - Getty Images Over a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to ...

It took 150 years for this veteran to finally get the respect he deserves. Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his ...

GULFPORT, Miss., May 29 (Reuters Life!) - A regiment of black soldiers who fought in the South against slavery during the U.S. Civil War might have expected to have earned a place in history. Instead ...

A lecture Monday on the role of blacks during the Civil War discussed how freed blacks and runaway slaves pushed to fight in the Union and usher in an end to slavery. James SoRelle, a Baylor ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Nearly 180,000 African American men fought for the Union in the Civil War. A new exhibit called “The United States Colored Troops” at the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research ...

On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him.But the history of the Bryan family farm dates back more than ...

The community didn’t know these soldiers, but still respected them after death. The community didn’t know these soldiers, but still respected them after death. The community didn’t know these soldiers ...

In the aftermath of slavery, white psychiatrists diagnosed Black people with “religious excitement” and claimed they were ...

A dispute erupted over a statue honoring Barbara Rose Johns, who protested segregation. Her statue replaced Confederate Gen.