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Medal of Honor Monday: William H. Carney – The First African American Recognized for Heroism in Combat
William Harvey Carney was born enslaved on February 29, 1840, in Norfolk, Virginia. The systemic denial of freedom and opportunity defined his early life. Despite the constraints of slavery, Carney ...
The Defense Department (DoD) efforts to purge civil rights figures from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney. That link once directed readers to a ...
NEW BEDFORD — During the month of January 2020, the 5th Lights for Peace flag to fly at the Fort Taber-Fort Rodman Military Museum honors the memory of William Harvey Carney, an African American who ...
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