Although only freeing slaves in Confederate-controlled areas, Lincoln's proclamation made ending slavery a central issue of the Civil War. Almost 200,000 African Americans fought for the Union ...

How did the African-American experience in the war, and in the postwar period, influence the civil rights movement? World War I was in many ways the beginning of the 20th-century civil rights movement ...

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War”, explains the unknown work of the men who defended the rights denied to them in ...