During Smalls’ first meeting with Lincoln, he urged the president to allow Black men to join the Union Army. Since the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln had rejected Black volunteers ...

“There is not a white officer in this regiment ... of 180,000 who would eventually serve during the Civil War. William Bronson may have been the first black soldier to fight for the Union ...

The Civil War had begun ... The army was extremely reluctant to commission black officers -- only one hundred gained commissions during the war. African American soldiers were also given ...

Since the Civil War, African American ... the command of white officers. African American troops line up, National Archives The military's view toward African Americans during World War II ...

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers, part of the U.S. Colored Troops ...

Jeff Kluever, former Allen County Historical Society director and avid Civil War historian, will be in Iola April 26 to talk ...

The city of Dallas, Texas is honoring the first Black ... post-Civil War America. “So, in 1896, there were indeed some sympathetic white council members who not only appoint the police officer ...

These were some of the reasons that prompted him to decide to join the Tacoma Police Department. Muse told The News Tribune that at one point his grandfather, an activist during the Civil Rights ...