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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
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The Civil War and emancipation
93,000 from the Confederate states, 40,000 from the border slave states, and 53,000 from the free states. Black soldiers faced discrimination as well as segregation. The army was extremely ...
Defense Secretary Hegseth Renames Fort Liberty To Fort Bragg—But Not After The Confederate General
The army installation’s name was changed to Fort Liberty in 2023, after Congress passed a law to rename all military bases ...
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Emancipation Proclamation
No Confederate states took the offer ... thenceforward, and forever free." The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves ...
Ft. Liberty is now Ft. Bragg. What's the history behind the name and Hegseth's decision?
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had referred to Fort Benning and Fort Bragg by their original, Confederate-inspired names.
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“A dog whistle to an old confederate flag” - Netizens debate after noticing a 9-star American flag being spotted on major US government websites
The American flag has 50 stars representing the country’s 50 states. However, since February 3, the internet has discovered that major U.S.