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A journalist traces his family tree back to ancestor who served in Black regiment in Civil War
San Francisco Chronicle· 38 minutes agoMy great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in...
Explaining the Origins of Juneteenth
Snopes via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoThis occurred two months after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered and the Union Army won the Civil War, and more than two years after then-U.S.
How Juneteenth Became Black Independence Day
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoOn June 19, 1865, more than two months after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox, which all but ended the Civil ...
Juneteenth goes unobserved by Florida state government
The Raw Story· 3 hours agoThe date reflects the timing of the announcement by Union General Gordon Granger in Galveston,...
Is this a MAGA Militia or a Clown Car?
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoGovernment authorities in the defense of the nation.” The original militia logo featured a mushroom-cloud fireball. (Napalm is a sticky flaming gel that...
Juneteenth events 2024: What’s happening on the day of the celebration
WSB Radio· 5 hours agoIt’s an American holiday celebrating the date when the last slaves in the United States were freed...
The Only Black Woman to Serve in the U.S. Army in WWI
Time via Yahoo News· 54 minutes agoEach supervisor would manage a telephone exchange near the front or behind the lines. As Messelin...
US troops to train in Juárez, Chihuahua in US-Mexico military, disaster exercises
Gannett via AOL· 4 hours agoArmy North has stated. The annual ...
A Miami-Dade man, 83, believes his father was among the last Americans born into slavery
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoFamily history has Bell’s father, Cornelius, born in Georgia on May 18, 1865. That was weeks after...
Community honors Civil War era troops at Memorial Walk
KOMU Columbia· 3 days agoIn order to commemorate Juneteenth and honor the Black soldiers who left slavery to fight in the ...
