African American History
Gerald D. Swick |
Published: July 14, 2011 at 8:32 am
The USO observes its 70th birthday in 2011. Elaine Rogers, president and CEO of the USO of Metropolitan Washington, has been with the organization for half its existence. In an exclusive interview, she talks about how the USO has evolved.
Doug Hamilton, Berndt Kühn and Larry Ludwig |
Published: August 06, 2010 at 1:50 pm
After Apache warriors attacked a 10-man Army escort wagon headed for Fort Grant, Arizona Territory, the survivors, including an assistant surgeon, struggled to reach safety.
Gregory Lalire |
Published: January 30, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Following the 1864 Elm Creek Raid, Britt Johnson went in search of his family, taken captive by Kiowa and Comanche Raiders. His story would later inspire the book and movie The Searchers.
Published: October 03, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Just days after Fort Sumter, a pro-Confederate mob in Maryland turned ex-slave Nicholas Biddle into the war's first casualty.
Published: April 19, 2007 at 4:20 pm
An eruption in the nation's abolitionist capital nearly seven years before Fort Sumter foreshadowed the irreconcilable divide between North and South and the fracture to come.By Chuck Leddy
Thomas M. Hammond |
Published: January 29, 2007 at 11:56 am
William H. Carney's grit with the 54th Massachusetts at Fort Wagner earned him the distinction of being the first black soldier to receive the Medal of Honor.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Union officer Julian Bryant used every tool at his disposal -- including influential family connections -- to win equal rights and fair treatment for black Union troops.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:16 pm
The unlikely tamer of Colorado's wild Yankee Hill was 42-year-old black marshal Willie Kennard.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Slavery, threats of seccesion and other factors made America a tinderbox in 1857 -- all it needed was a match.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:15 pm
On a gunfire-swept slope near Richmond on September 29, 1864, USCT soldiers stood to the test and proved black men made good professional troops. Fourteen of them received the Medal of Honor for their bravery.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:15 pm
Dedicated Massachusetts abolitionist Silas Soule ironically gave his life for the red man, not the black.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:08 pm
After wending his way through the economic, political and moral quagmire of slavery, in his will -- his final and most symbolic message to the nation -- George Washington presented a blueprint for ending the 'Peculiar Institution.'
Robert Hodges, Jr. |
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:08 pm
The African-American 92nd Infantry Division took on formidable German opposition in its push up the Italian boot.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
A former slave and former chaplain for the black 24th infantry teamed up with a gifted black teacher named William Payne to create a colony of opportunity.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
Captain William Frohock, Lieutenant Frederick Smith and the black troopers of Company K, 9th Cavalry, received an after-Christmas surprise from Kickapoo raiders in 1867.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:07 pm
After the March on Washington, the FBI launched a vicious campaign to utterly discredit Martin Luther King Jr.
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