In this lesson, students watch a clip from the episode Our Colored Heroes in which they learn about Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson, two African-American World War I heroes. They analyze period ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American ... s legacy as a Civil War hero on the State House grounds.

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After serving the Union cause as a pilot for the rest of the Civil War, he returned to South ... reconstructed state governments and the African-American citizens they tried to protect.

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Ann Mae Robertson served in the 'Six Triple Eight' during WWII, an all-female African American unit that cleared backlogs of ...

specifically to honor African American heroes. History shows African Americans have bravely served this country dating back to the Revolutionary War, but despite proudly serving in numerous ...

announced the introduction of a pair of bills to commemorate the life and legacy of African American Mess Attendant Doris “Dorie” Miller. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mess Attendant ...

Now a website honoring Sgt. Henry Johnson has gone down. Johnson is an African-American World War I hero from Albany, known for fighting off a raid of German soldiers to save the lives of his ...

by erecting the first statue of an individual African American on its Statehouse lawn. Smalls, famous for his daring escape during the Civil War, will be recognized for his broader contributions ...

NEW KENT — The American landscape is filled with grand stone monuments commemorating war heroes and founding fathers ... the American Revolution and the African American Heritage Society ...