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 ...

Civil rights leaders launched a #HandsOffOurHistory campaign to rally to protect Black history from Trump's executive orders.

The presence, after the war, of a free, black settlement ... just a few miles from Unionville. Not until the civil rights movement of the 1970s, Bernard Demczuk says, did Unionville’s ...

In the Culminating Activity, students compare and contrast the causes and effects of these different currents on the African American experience in the post-civil rights ... to the War on Drugs.

The author looks at three periods: pre-Civil War, post-Civil War ... began maintaining that they had never objected to Black rights on racial grounds. What they opposed, they said, was that ...

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.

Following the American Civil War and the abolition of the slave ... Jim Crow laws denied Black people rights by enforcing segregation and discrimination in southern states. The Ku Klux Klan ...

and a “Hall of Heroes” that spotlights African American servicemembers throughout history. The new “Bullets to Ballots” ...

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will ... a new church in 1965 during the Civil Rights Movement. That original site is on a ...

The memorial highlighting the area’s Black Civil War soldiers is planned for a prominent gateway on Boundary Street in a city where generations of Black residents were enslaved on area plantations.

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War, freeing enslaved Black people in the Confederate states on Jan. 1 1863 and allowing the newly freed Black ...