Military Conflict – Civil War
5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment (1864-1865)
The 5th Regiment Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry was a Union Army cavalry regiment during the Civil War. The cavalry regiment...
E.E. Ward Moving and Storage (1881- )
E.E. Ward Moving and Storage, recognized by the U.S. Department of Commerce as the oldest continuously operating Black-owned business in...
Willie Melton (1900-1969)
Willie Melton was a farmer and a Civil Rights pioneer in Fort Bend, Texas, responsible for helping to settle what...
William Henry West (1842-1915)
William Henry West was a Civil War-era African American soldier and later a police officer in Washington, D.C. West was...
The Battle of Mogadishu (1993)
The Battle of Mogadishu, also known as Black Hawk Down, was part of Operation Gothic Serpent. It was fought on...
Isaac Lane (1834-1937)
Isaac Lane was born March 4, 1834, in Madison County, five miles from the city of Jackson, Tennessee. His mother,...
Contraband Relief Association (1862-1865)
At the beginning of the Civil War, there were approximately two million enslaved women. An estimated 500,000 of these women...
Rocky Fork Underground Railroad Community (1816- )
In 1816, Rocky Fork near Godfrey, Illinois, was established by four free African American families who purchased five adjacent parcels...
Pierre George Deslondes (1829-1885)
Pierre G. Deslondes (last name sometimes spelled Deslonde) was an African American sugar planter and wealthy free man of color...
