The Civil War had begun ... and Missouri -- President Lincoln insisted that the war was not about slavery or black rights; it was a war to preserve the Union. His words were not simply aimed ...

In the aftermath, the rate of Black ... Civil War. Either way, this position is halting racial progress and preventing us from living in a nation where citizens are truly treated equally. This ...

President Grant gave the pen he used to sign the 15th Amendment to a fellow Civil War veteran ... that would guarantee voting rights for black males and readmit the two states to the Union.

The Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1862, allowed free Black men and formerly enslaved men to fight for the U.S. during the Civil War. These soldiers ... during the Civil Rights Movement.

The Defense Department efforts to purge civil rights figures from its website led to the deletion of a page about Black Civil War hero Sgt. William Carney. That link once directed readers to a ...

Though not well known today, Langston was one of the foremost Black leaders of the 1800s. With the aid of his two brothers, ...

Among the obscured pages was material about civil rights. By Tim Balk ... are cemetery guides focused on Black soldiers, women’s military service and Civil War veterans. Some of the materials ...

Warnock spoke from the same place where civil rights leaders held their first mass meeting to encourage Black residents to ... Jim Crow failed. The war on drugs failed,” he said.

Strom Thurmond, a segregationist who used the Senate procedure known as a filibuster in an effort to block the passage of landmark civil rights legislation for Black Americans. Nearly 70 years ago ...