We also remember a decade filled with incredible fictional movies which broke box office records and worked, through metaphor, to communicate modern African American struggles. It’s important to know ...

In American history, there has never quite been ... Some of the best Civil War movies detail these skirmishes well as ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.

"Moreover, the only military unit that was commanded by an African-American before the Second World War", Domingo says. blacks, whites, Latinos and Jews fought together; there was no segregation.

Such is the scope and thematic heft of many war movies, a lot of the major stars ... it focuses on one of the Union Army’s first African American regiments. Under the command of Col.

"Incidents of the war: A harvest of death ... dead who were never identified 66 — Estimated percentage of dead African American Union soldiers who were never identified 2 out of 3 — Number ...

In one of the bloodiest battles of the war, African American troops from the 9th Louisiana Infantry, the 1st Mississippi Infantry, and the 13th Louisiana Infantry fought alongside white troops ...