Voices of Emancipation: Union Pension Files Giving Voice to Former Slaves
By Donald R. Shaffer and Elizabeth RegosinIn May 1911, Samuel W. K. Dague, a "special examiner," or field investigator, of the U.S. Pension Bureau, interviewed Dick Lewis Barnett, a black Civil War veteran. Barnett had applied for a pension two years earlier based on his ( Read more... )

Obama says he stands on shoulders of black World War II pilotsSEATTLE - Barack Obama has said he's standing on the shoulders of George Hickman and his trailblazing colleagues ( Read more... )

Black WWII pilots were banned from victory parades after returning to U.S.WASHINGTON - The Tuskegee Airmen made history during World War II as the first black military pilots in the United States, only to return home to discrimination and exclusion from victory parades. Survivors of the elite unit have been invited to Barack Obama's inauguration as ( Read more... )

One of the first of the pioneering black pilots served 21-year military career ( Read more... )

Revolutionary War Role Would Be RecognizedWASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Connecticut native's decades-long fight for a monument to the thousands of black soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War took an important step forward recently when U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd and other lawmakers introduced legislation that would let it be on the National Mall ( Read more... )

S.1051 Title: A bill to authorize National Mall Liberty Fund D.C. to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia at Constitution Gardens previously approved to honor free persons and slaves who fought for independence, liberty, and justice for all during the American Revolution ( Read more... )

Listing Names of Black & Native American Soldiers ( Read more... )

While Leona W. Martin's forebears were fighting for the British during the Revolutionary War, the freed slave that genealogist David Lambert counts as an adopted ancestor was performing heroically for the patriots at Bunker Hill ( Read more... )

When I hear the name Daughters of the American Revolution, I think of the incident in which Marian Anderson, a black contralto and one of the world's greatest opera singers, was told by the DAR she could not sing in Constitution Hall because it was off limits to black performers ( Read more... )

This movie, about Africans fighting for France in WWII has been nominated for a foriegn language oscar (trailer here)

Note that the following article is dated 2006.

Equal pay for French colonial veterans
France decreed Wednesday that overseas veterans will soon get the same pensions as their French peers.

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