A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...

The African American Civil War Memorial honors the 209,145 members of the United States Colored Troops (USCT) that served during the Civil War. The Spanish-American War monument is located in ...

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death ... Estimated percentage of Civil War dead who were never identified 66 — Estimated percentage of dead African American Union soldiers who were ...

The Civil War had begun ... black officers -- only one hundred gained commissions during the war. African American soldiers were also given substandard supplies and rations.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established ...

$120 million Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial along the Tidal Basin, the first D.C. monument dedicated to a person of color, and the African American Civil War Museum. Other can't-miss activities ...