Pieces of Our Past: The Snowden Memorial at Ellsworth Cemetery
Ellsworth Cemetery was founded by a small cadre of Black Civil War Veterans in 1876 to provide a burial ground for the ...
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Retracing final steps of Black cavalry in Kentucky, killed in 'Simpsonville Massacre'
When it comes to Blacks in the military, you’ve heard the story of the Buffalo Soldiers and the Tuskegee Airmen but have you heard of the 5th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, based right ...
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Africa's Power Revolution: Mission 300 to Light Up Continent’s Future
Exceptional World Bank Group-African Development Bank Collaboration to Connect 300 million People to Electricity by 2030 Dar es Salaam Energy Summit to Chart Pathways for Energy Transformation ...
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After 106 years, Black South African WWI troops honored with memorial
In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.
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52nd Australian Infantry Battalion
At Dernancourt, on 5 April, the 52nd Battalion assisted in the repulse of the largest German attack mounted against Australian troops during the war. The German threat persisted through April, and ...
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1,772 Black servicemen who died in WWI were ignored in South Africa. At last they are being honored
African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in World War I and have no known grave, in Cape Town ...
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1,772 Black servicemen who died in WWI were ignored in South Africa. At last they are being honored
Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no known grave have been recognized with a memorial featuring 1,772 names. An inscription ...
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1,772 Black servicemen who died in WWI were ignored in South Africa. At last they are being honored
Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on the Allied side during World War I and have no known grave have been recognized with a memorial featuring 1,772 names. An inscription on ...