University of Georgia history professor John Morrow and University of New Mexico history professor Robert Jefferson discussed African American World War II veterans and the civil rights movement ...

The name of an African-American war hero will soon appear on a street where he lived in West Philadelphia. Cpl. Waverly B. Woodson Jr. served as a medic in the fight against Adolf Hitler’s Nazi ...

Object Details Author Williams, Chad Louis 1976- Contents Democracy at war : African Americans, citizenship, and the meanings of military service -- The "race question" : the U.S. government and the ...

And if ever the world needed that story, now is the moment.” Burying the hundreds of thousands of U.S. service members who died during World War II was a monumental task. On June 8, 1944, the U.S.

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.

Eight African-American Senators made huge impacts on the history of politics. Feb. 1, 2013 — -- intro:The United States Senate has a long history of producing historic leaders, but has ...

World War II has an extensive and complicated history that many historians and scholars still debate today. It is widely believed that the war began on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded ...