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The Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on June 19. Here's what to know about the flag's ...
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Memorial Day is a U.S. holiday that’s supposed to be about mourning the nation’s fallen service members, ...
Green Bluff’s Siemers Farm, known for strawberry and fall festivals, transformed into a Civil War battlefield this Memorial ...
The first Memorial Day tribute was created by newly freed Black Americans in 1865, though racists have tried to erase them ...
If you are a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, you ride into the fray with a rebel yell, flying the red, white and ... years since the Civil War. It was never the flag of the Confederate ...
The cemetery housing the twelve Civil War heroes and their families was adopted by Vietnam veterans, who ensure the upkeep of the land and gravestones. The Mechanicsburg community celebrates the ...
The holiday's origins can be traced to the American Civil War ... 180,000 Black men served in the Union Army, the holiday in many communities would essentially become “white Memorial Day ...
One of the earliest Memorial Day observances occurred on May 1, 1865. Organized by freed slaves and white missionaries.
Did you know that dozens of Orange County-born African Americans fought for freedom during the American Civil War ... that any black man captured in a Federal uniform or any white man captured ...
DES MOINES (AP) With seven descendants of Iowa Civil War soldiers standing at ... Encased in a glass, wood-framed case, the flag has 13 alternating red and white stripes and 34 white stars ...
The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.
One-third of these companies are expanding resource groups for employees who are Black, indigenous or people of color and continue to require or offer DEI-related training for some or all staff ...