Blacks on both sides of the war served in relief roles, for example, working as nurses, cooks, and blacksmiths. The South refused to arm blacks but used them to build fortifications and perform camp duties; many Northern officers refused to believe Black troops would fight, and so they were...
In 1656, Massachusetts reversed its previous position that allowed arming those with African heritage and also excluded blacks. Four years later, in 1661, Connecticut did likewise. Soon after the rest of colonial America followed suit; legally outlawing black colonials from participation in militias...
'Douglass Appealing to President Lincoln,' by William Edouard Scott, 1943, depicts Frederick Douglass as he petitions for the participation of African Americans in the Union Army during the US Civil War. By the time the Civil War began in 1861,Frederick Douglasswas one of the most famous Blac...
(2008); Jenkinson, Black 1919: Riots, Racism and Resistance in Imperial Britain (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009); Jenkinson, “‘All in the Same Uniform?’ The Participation of Black Colonial Residents in the British Armed Forces in the First World War,” Journal of Imperial and ...
Intersectional Experiences of Black South African Female Doctoral Students in STEM: Participation, Success and RetentionGrace Ese-osa IdahosaZamambo Mkhize
Boko Haram. The two minute scene explored sex trafficking and child soldiers, two war crimes that fuel groups like Boko Haram and the Lord’s Resistance Army (which was a warped version of Christianity). Asha Noor, a Somali American community organizer who works on Islamophobia in Michigan ...
An enslaved family picking cotton in the fields near Savannah, circa 1860s. In the years immediately following theRevolutionary War, the rural South—the region where slavery had taken the strongest hold in North America—faced an economic crisis. The soil used to grow tobacco, then the leading...
You watched black college students from around the country and white college students from around the country come to the south and be murdered, fighting for the rights of African-Americans; do you regret sitting on the sidelines at that time?
The historiography of African American participation in the Civil War is more frequently centered in the southern regions where more than ninety percent of the black population resided during the nineteenth century. Hence, little attention has been paid to the military and home-front experiences of ...
Kentucky legislators and citizens reacted with hostility to the presence of African Americans in political life. Although the sanctions of the Voting Rights Act did not apply to the border state of Kentucky, they nevertheless had a measurable effect on black electoral participation and representation...