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Julia W. Garnet’s Civil War Activism

December 14, 2022December 14, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Activism, Black women, Civil War, Julia Williams Garnet, mutual Aid

Throughout the American Civil War male proponents (Black and white) of mobilizing United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments viewed military

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The Civil War and Natchez U.S. Colored Troops

December 13, 2022December 28, 2022 Deborah Fountain race, slavery

By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 Black men served as US soldiers and sailors. Of that number, more than 17,000

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Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez and the African American Community of New Orleans during the Civil War

October 19, 2022October 13, 2022 Anthony J. Cade II abolition, Civil War, Louis Charles Roundanez, Newspapers, slavery

Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez lived an extraordinary life. He traveled the world, earned two medical degrees, started two newspapers, and was an activist during

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Black Women and Civil War Pensions

September 1, 2021August 28, 2021 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Black women, Gender, Resistance

By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a

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Black Women, the Civil War, and United States Colored Troops

July 20, 2021July 19, 2021 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Activism, Black women, Resistance

  In 1887, William J. Simmons, a United States Colored Troops (USCT) veteran turned historian, expressed his gratitude to Black

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