Louisiana Man Sentenced To 25 Years For Torching 3 Black Churches

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Joseph P. Bradley , (born March 14, 1813, Berne, N.Y., U.S.—died Jan. 22, 1892, Washington, D.C.), associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1870. Bradley was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Electoral Commission of 1877, and his vote elected Rutherford B. Hayes president of the United

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Heroic union seaman

Robert Smalls and 12 fellow Afro-American seamen captured the Planter, a cotton steamer converted into a Confederate battleship. Smalls piloted the gunboat into Union lines and presented the ship to the U.S. Navy at Charleston Harbor. Smalls was promoted to Captain during the Civil War

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May

13

1862

Walker, Mary Edwards

Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832–1919, American surgeon and feminist, b. Oswego, N.Y., grad. Syracuse Medical College, 1855. At the beginning of the Civil War she offered her services to the Union army. For the first three years she served as a nurse, but in 1864 she was commissioned assistant

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Matthew Henson

Matthew Alexander Henson (August 8, 1866 – March 9, 1955) was the first African-American Arctic explorer, an associate of Robert Peary on seven voyages over a period of nearly 23 years. They made six voyages and spent a total of 18 years in expeditions.[1] Henson served as a navigator and

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Voices of the Civil War Episode 6: "Overwhelming Numbers and Resources"

At the time of Civil War, 18.9 million Americans lived in the North versus 8 million Americans in the South. These overwhelming numbers along with other resources had a critical impact upon the course and outcome of the war. Why was the Confederate army, representing territories with less than

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FATHERS ARE NEEDED AND DESERVE TO BE APPRECIATED! | The Crusader Newspaper Group

Unfortunately, because of the unique circumstance surrounding the attacks on Black families in the United States, Black fathers are not always taken

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Matthews, William Dominick (ca. 1833-ca. 1910)

William Dominick Matthews was a Civil War officer in the Union Army and is best known for leading the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry. Matthews was born a free man in October 25th, 1827, on the eastern shore of Maryland to parents who were interracially married. His father Joseph was

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1862

Congress Sends Juneteenth Legislation to Trump | Dallas Weekly

June 19, 1863 Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society enforce the Emancipation order

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African-American History Quiz II

The remaining slaves in the United States learned that the Civil War had been won by the North and that they were now free

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10 military posts are named for these Confederate commanders. The Army is thinking about changing that | The Atlanta Voice

Who it is named for: Lt. Gen. Ambrose Powell (A.P.) Hill

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Beyonce drops surprise single ‘Black Parade’ on Juneteenth – Voice and Viewpoint

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Beyonce did not let Juneteenth pass without dropping one of her signature surprises _ a new single called “Black

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African-American art

African-American art is a broad term describing the visual arts of the American black community (African Americans). Influenced by various cultural traditions, including those of Africa, Europe and the Americas, traditional African-American art forms include the range of plastic arts, from basket

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Abolitionism in the United States

Not to be confused with Prohibition in the United

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List of African-American United States Senators

The United States Senate has had ten African-American elected or appointed office holders.[1] The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, which is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. The US Census Bureau defines African

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Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth , legal name Isabella Van Wagener (born c. 1797, Ulster county, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 26, 1883, Battle Creek, Mich.), African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women’s rights

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Grover Cleveland Wins Election

Grover Cleveland won election and became the first Democratic president of the United States since the Civil War.

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Nov

4

1884

DeGrasse, John Van Surly (1825-1868)

John Van Surly DeGrasse was a commissioned physician with the Union Army during the American Civil War and was the first black to be admitted to a United states medical society. He was born in June 1825 in New York City, New York to Count George DeGrasse and Maria Van

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Juneteenth Virtual Unity Rally Against Racism | Dallas Weekly

Juneteenth Virtual Unity Rally Against Racism

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55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (1863-1865)

The 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was a volunteer regiment made up of men who wanted to enter the already full 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The 54th was the first officially recognized black military unit in the United States. When

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Samuel Chapman Armstrong

Samuel Chapman Armstrong , (born Jan. 30, 1839, Maui, Hawaii—died May 11, 1893, Hampton, Va., U.S.), Union military commander of black troops during the American Civil War and founder of Hampton Institute, a vocational educational school for

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Beyoncé drops surprise single 'Black Parade' on Juneteenth | The Atlanta Voice

Beyoncé did not let Juneteenth pass without dropping one of her signature surprises — a new single called “Black

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Black Soldiers in the Civil War | National Archives

The issues of emancipation and military service were intertwined from the onset of the Civil War. News from Fort Sumter set off a rush by free black men to enlist in U.S. military units. They wereturned away, however, because a Federal law dating from 1792 barred Negroes from bearing arms for the

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1862

Albert Sidney Johnston

Albert Sidney Johnston , (born February 2, 1803, Washington, Kentucky, U.S.—died April 6, 1862, Shiloh, Tennessee), commander of the Confederate forces in the Western theatre during the early stages of the American Civil War (1861–65). His battlefield death was considered an irreparable loss by

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‘Donald Trump is More Focused on Saving Statues of Slaveholders & Confederate Generals than Protecting Americans from the Coronavirus’ – Free Press of Jacksonville

Congresswoman Maxine Waters’ (CA-43) statement on Donald Trump’s negligence in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and his threats to protestors calling for the removal of statues of Confederate generals and

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Seven Things To Know About Juneteenth

UPDATED: 3:03 a.m. ET, June 19, 2020

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True Reformers Bank, The (1888-1910)

The Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers was the first bank owned by African Americans in the United States. It was founded on March 2, 1888 by Reverend William Washington Browne and opened on April 3, 1889. Although the True Reformers bank was the first black-owned

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Juneteenth Vibes: A Family-Friendly Playlist Celebrating Blackness

Juneteenth is a national holiday celebrating the freedom of African Americans from slavery in the U.S. Its name comes from the words “June” and

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Powell, William B., Jr. (1834-1915)

William B. Powell Jr., one of the first African American physicians to receive a contract as a surgeon with the Union Army, was free born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1834. His father, William Powell Sr., also in the medical practice, was African American, and his mother was Native

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(1864) Abraham Lincoln “Address at a Sanitary Fair"

During the Civil War Northerners organized sanitary fairs to raise funds on behalf of the United States Sanitary Commission, a charitable relief organization which promoted the welfare of Union Soldiers. President Abraham Lincoln addressed one such fair in Baltimore, Maryland on April

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