Robert Smalls escaped slavery by commandeering a Confederate ship and was the first Black man to serve in South Carolina’s state legislature.
Governor Jeff Landry renamed the Louisiana National Guard training center after a man who enslaved Black people.
Dr. Errol Henderson, most notably in one of his more recent works, The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized builds on DuBois’s work, as well as that of Alain Locke, makes the argument we most need to know: We were our own liberators.
For those who aren't Civil War history buffs and are unfamiliar with Davis, he was the president of the Confederate States of America who said that Black people are “fitted expressly for servitude.”
Conservatives can't be honest about what the Civil War was.
Nikki Haley's non-answer about what started the Civil War upheld a partisan tradition.
In 1877 the Black town of Nicodemus was born. Reverend W. H. Smith and other freed slaves recruited more than 300 ex-slaves to Nicodemus to start a new life.
A South Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate won't apologize for comments denying the central role of slavery for the Civil War.
Sen. Tim Scott joins others in criticizing John Kelly for his Civil War "compromise" remarks on Fox News.
White House chief of staff John Kelly chalked up the origin of the American Civil War to a "lack of an ability to compromise" and ignored slavery in racist remarks Monday.
Donald Trump's remarks about the Civil War are the latest example of a longstanding problem.
