Panelists talked about African American views of the Civil War, including those of emancipated slaves, the U.S. Colored Troops, and political leaders such as Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois.

Meanwhile, Life is commemorating African-Americans and the Civil War with a gallery on their site. In addition to many other anniversary photos, these tell the story of the minority population ...

In recognition of the 2011 African American/Black History Month theme, the Fort Lee Traveller offers a historic glimpse of the fight for equality during the Civil War.

The Civil War ended slavery in America. So why, asks author Ta-Nehisi Coates, do African-Americans, who benefited most from this crucial turning point, take so little interest in the conflict?

The U.S. Civil War began 150 years ago this week and became the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. More than a century later, people are debating the reasons for the war, slavery versus states ...

Casualties were extremely heavy. Out of an initial force of 1,300 men, African Americans suffered 455 casualties. High casualty rates were common for African American units -- usually for two reasons.

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

Most of us know that before the American Civil War there were so-called slave states and free states. Knowing this, our minds fill in the map with logic. If such a line as “Mason-Dixon ...

While African Americans fought in many other wars including the Civil War and the many undeclared conflicts taking place today in countries such as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia the AFRO chose these ...

African American Civil War veterans to be formally recognized at ceremony September 2, 2014 More than 10 years ago The The grave marker of William Taylor before it and the three other gravestones ...

Panelists talked about African American views of the Civil War, including those of emancipated slaves, the U.S. Colored Troops, and political leaders such as Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois.

FORT LEE, Va. (Feb. 10, 2010) -- A corporal with a mutilated left arm fights on with his right and refuses to leave the battlefield. A volunteer unit, demanding equal recognition, refuses its ...