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The Civil War and Natchez U.S. Colored Troops

By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 Black men served as US soldiers and sailors. Of that number, more than 17,000

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom stands apart as one of the most well-known events of the modern

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of

For nearly 50 years, commercial radio companies only employed white broadcasters to target information and entertainment to mainstream America. The

William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women