On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where minutemen fought British soldiers who ...

White - Author ... he urged the president to allow Black men to join the Union Army. Since the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln had rejected Black volunteers, in part because he had “no ...

click image for close-up At the end of the Civil War, black and white Southerners confronted the reconstructions of their society. American artist Winslow Homer painted A Visit from the Old ...

Following the American Civil War and the ... was also clear in wages. Black Americans were often paid less than white Americans in the same job. After World War Two, the NAACP started to take ...

At the end of World War ... the Civil War, Black Americans continued to face prejudice. Many states introduced legislation - known as Jim Crow laws - that segregated Black from White Americans.

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War, freeing enslaved Black people in the Confederate states on Jan. 1 1863 and allowing the newly freed Black ...