Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, were part of the defending forces of Washington, D.C. Photo shows two rows of African Americans holding rifles at Fort Lincoln in 1864.
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Obedient Defiance
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Sherman’s Bootstraps
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This Is Not News: Black Voters Overwhelmingly Choose Biden over Trump
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Middle class African American family seated on lawn in Georgia, ca. 1899.
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May 30, 1921
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Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) lifelong activist for abolition of slavery and civil rights for freed slaves and women
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Miscegenation in the Antebellum South