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SAYLES: Local history and American stories: Black WWI veterans and Thanksgiving 1925

On Thanksgiving 1925, 10 of the 15 African-American World War I soldiers who had ties to North Iowa were U.S. Army veterans ...
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'Harlem Hellfighters' honored with Congressional Gold Medal at U.S. Capitol

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WABC) -- Wednesday represented a long overdue day of recognition for a unit of more than 4,000 brave African American soldiers from New York who fought in World War I, known as the ...
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Honoring New York's forgotten soldiers : African Americans of the Civil War : with research examples A-Z : a case study in historiographic genealogy / by Harry Bradshaw ...

"Men of Color! To arms! Now or never!" -- Identifying local heroes: the search for documents -- Connecting colored troops to family and communities -- Historiographic genealogy and United States ...
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Black soldiers in blue : African American troops in the Civil War era / edited by John David Smith

Let us all be grateful that we have colored troops that will fight / John David Smith -- An ironic route to glory : Louisiana's native guards at Port Hudson / Lawrence Lee Hewitt -- Battle on the ...
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African American Civil War Museum honors the Black soldiers who ended the Civil War on Juneteenth

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