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Remember Poison Spring!
If you have seen the 2012 film Lincoln, you may remember the first two scenes: a gruesome hand-to-hand fight between white Confederate troops and African-American Federal soldiers, and two USCTs speaking with their commander-in-chief. Besides the overarching themes of race, … Continue reading
ECW Weekender: Emancipation Memorial
Thinking about heading to Washington D.C. this month or in the near future to study African American history? While the National Museum of African American History and Culture is a highlight and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is another … Continue reading
Facebook Cover Photo: African American Soldiers for the Union
“Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder, and bullets in his pocket, and there is no power on the earth … Continue reading
Posted in USCT
Tagged 107th USCT, African American History, black history, black history month, black-history-2019, ECW Facebook, facebook photos, USCT
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Battlefield Markers & Monuments: Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington D.C.
An important monument of President Abraham Lincoln sits in Lincoln Park, a park in the Capitol Hill section of Washington, D.C. This statue is seen by thousands of people each day – the Emancipation Memorial. I wonder about how many … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Monuments
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, African American History, Charlotte Scott, Civil Rights Movement, Emancipation Memorial, Emancipation Proclamation, Frederick Douglass, freedmen, Freedmen's Memorial, historic memorials, historical controversy, John Mercer Langston, Kirk Savage, Lincoln's memory, markers-and-monuments-17, Mary McLeod Bethune, Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Ball, Western Sanitary Commission
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Question of the Week: 6/20-6/26/16
Since the Emancipation Proclamation wasn’t announced until 1862, African American History and abolition are sometimes overlooked in studies of the Civil War’s first year. How did they respond to the 1861 conflict? How did abolitionists use the beginning of the war … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Question of the Week, Slavery
Tagged Abolition, African American History, Question of the Week
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