Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Negro Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Monumet of Memorial Building to the Memory of Negro Soldiers and Sailors
Author: United States. Congress. Library Joint CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Monument Or Memorial Building to the Memory of Negro Soldiers and Sailors
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American soldiers
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Forgotten Black Soldiers Who Served in White Regiments During the Civil War
Author: Juanita Patience MossPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788455407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 1998, the author learned about a new monument in Washington, D.C., created to honor the black soldiers and sailors who had served in the Civil War. What she was about to learn; however, was that her great grandfather's name would not be among those remembered there. Why not? Because he had not served in one of the segregated units whose members' names are engraved on the memorial wall. Instead, Crowder Pacien/Patience had served in a white regiment. An identifiably "Col'd" man, he had been a private in the 103rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. After having been told that there had been no black soldiers serving in white regiments, the author made a hypothesis that if there had been one such black soldier in a white regiment, as she knew, then there might have been others. This series traces the author's journey to such proof. The hundreds of names listed here should be proof enough for the "nay-sayers" to conclude that black men indeed did serve in white regiments. Chapters in Volume II include: Difficulties with Finding Facts, C-Span Book TV Presentation, Mixed Race Regiments, Honoring Civil War Ancestors, Recruitment of Black Soldiers, General Orders No. 323 and the Undercooks, Three Undercooks Garrisoned at Plymouth, N.C., A Trip to the Carlisle Barracks, Finding the Gravesites of Black Soldiers, A Gravesite Lost in North Carolina, One Descendant's Determination, and Conclusion. Chapters are followed by lists: Additional Black Soldiers Alphabetized, Additional Black Soldiers by States, and Final Resting Places. Numerous photographs and illustrations, End Notes, Sources, and an index to full-names, subjects and places add to the value of this work. Historians and Civil War "buffs" alike will find new information revealed in this series, even though so many years have passed since the last shot of the war was fired.
Black Poppies
Author: Stephen BournePublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752497871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In 1914 Britain was home to at least 10,000 black Britons, many of African and West Indian heritage. Most of them were loyal to the 'mother country' when the First World War broke out. Despite being discouraged from serving in the British Army, men managed to join all branches of the forces, while black communities contributed to the war effort on the home front. By 1918 it is estimated that Britain's black population had trebled to 30,000, as many black servicemen who had fought for Britain decided to make it their home. It was far from a happy ending, however, as they and their families often came under attack from white ex-servicemen and civilians increasingly resentful of their presence. With first-hand accounts and original photographs, Black Poppies is the essential guide to the military and civilian wartime experiences of black men and women, from the trenches to the music halls. It is intended as a companion to Stephen Bourne's previous books published by The History Press: Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front 1939–45 and The Motherland Calls: Britain's Black Servicemen and Women 1939–45.
Festivals of Freedom
Author: Mitch KachunPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9781558495289
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
With the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 1808, many African Americans began calling for "a day of publick thanksgiving" to commemorate this important step toward freedom. During the ensuing century, black leaders built on this foundation and constructed a distinctive and vibrant tradition through their celebrations of the end of slavery in New York State, the British West Indies, and eventually the United States as a whole. In this revealing study, Mitch Kachun explores the multiple functions and contested meanings surrounding African American emancipation celebrations from the abolition of the slave trade to the fiftieth anniversary of U.S. emancipation. Excluded from July Fourth and other American nationalist rituals for most of this period, black activists used these festivals of freedom to encourage community building and race uplift. Kachun demonstrates that, even as these annual rituals helped define African Americans as a people by fostering a sense of shared history, heritage, and identity, they were also sites of ambiguity and conflict. Freedom celebrations served as occasions for debate over black representations in the public sphere, struggles for group leadership, and contests over collective memory and its meaning. Based on extensive research in African American newspapers and oration texts, this book retraces a vital if often overlooked tradition in African American political culture and addresses important issues about black participation in the public sphere. By illuminating the origins of black Americans' public commemorations, it also helps explain why there have been increasing calls in recent years to make the "Juneteenth" observance of emancipation an American -- not just an African American -- day of commemoration.
Fighting Rebels with Only One Hand
Author: Frederick DouglassPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781724594105
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Fighting Rebels with Only One Hand is one of Frederick Douglass' classics.
Index of Congressional Committee Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Index of Congressional Committee Hearings (not Confidential in Character) Prior to March 4,1931, in the United States Senate Library
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Author: