What was the Battle of Charleston? What major battles was Ulysses S. Grant in? How do the Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg relate? Did the Battle of Appomattox end the Civil War? What battle was the turning point of the Civil War?
June 19, 1865, “Juneteenth,” was the day freedom finally came to the enslaved people of Texas, and is now celebrated as our second American independence day. But African Americans in eastern North Carolina, in counties already occupied by Federal troops, heard the news of the Emancipation ...
Pennsylvania is a state that’s been at the heart of the nation’s history for centuries, earning it the nickname “The Keystone State”. As well as being one of the original 13 colonies, this is the place where the Declaration of Independence was signed
In each poem, however, Tolson, who was ethnically both African-American and native American, continued to opine about race, and about the difficulty of squaring the actual experiences of American minorities with the idea of equality promised by the American experiment. True, the form of Harlem ...
In these cases, the removal of the Confederate monuments was sparked by the June 2015 murder of nine black parishioners at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by an avowed white supremacist claiming allegiance to the Confederate battle flag. Immediately ...
All were aboard when the Roma crashed. Dale Mabry (March 22, 1891–February 21, 1922) was an American World War I aviator. Mabry, a native of Florida, was a son of former Florida Supreme Court Justice and Lt. Gov. of Florida Milton Harvey Mabry (b. 1851). Dr. Frank Scozzari ...
The Palmetto tree is the official state tree of South Carolina. It was adopted as such in 1939 by Joint Resolution. It can be found on the South Carolina flag and the State Seal.This tree symbolizes the defeat of the British on Sullivan’s Island on 28 June 1776, during the ...
Charleston, SC native Shepard Fairey is a modern artistic iconoclast, known primarily for his use of public space as a medium for subversive political commentary. He makes extensive memetic use of the phrase OBEY in his public-facingart installations(frequently but not exclusively paired with a pro...
no small decision. In these cases, the removal of the Confederate monuments was sparked by the June 2015 murder of nine black parishioners at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by an avowed white supremacist claiming allegiance to the Confederate battle ...