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Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Sunday, May 26, 2024

Must Read Book: COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid

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Check out this exciting and interesting book about Harriet Tubman. The book is titled COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, a...
Sunday, December 22, 2019

Support grows for memorial honoring African-American Civil War heroes

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While the debate continues over Confederate monuments , support is growing for a new memorial on Monument Avenue in Richmond Virginia t...
Saturday, July 14, 2018

Anonymous donors are dismantling Confederate statues

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Renaming schools and removing statues can be expensive, so donors are quietly stepping up to help communities pay. Three elementary sc...
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

NJ burial site for African American Civil War veterans in disrepair

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Dolly Marshall's great-great-grandfather, a Civil War veteran who was buried at Mount Peace Cemetery in Lawnside, New Jersey. The ce...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Virginia Lt. governor protest honoring Confederate general

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Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, the second African-American to serve in that role, stepped off the dais where he presides over the...
Monday, January 01, 2018

Experts say black Confederate soldiers didn't fight for South Carolina

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Two South Carolina lawmakers want to erect a monument on the State House grounds to African-Americans who served the state as Confederat...
Sunday, July 09, 2017

Robert E. Lee was not a Confederate Flag supporter

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There is much contention as Confederate monuments and flags on state capital grounds come down around the United States. Those who suppo...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Alabama Senate passes Confederate monuments bill

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The Alabama Senate has passed a bill that bars changes from being made to Confederate or long-standing monuments in the state. The ones ...
Wednesday, March 08, 2017

Arkansas lawmakers advance plan to seperate Robert E. Lee day from MLK day

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A proposal to end Arkansas' dual holiday for Robert E. Lee and slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. easily won Senate ap...
Friday, September 05, 2014

Alexandria (VA) to dedicate memorial to African Americans who died in Civil War

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During the Civil War, the Alexandria Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery was the burial place for approximately 1,700 African American...