In Charleston, South Carolina, thousands of formerly enslaved Black Americans organized a Memorial Day commemoration for deceased Union soldiers who had lost their lives in the Civil War (1861 ...

Over the next century, more states and government agencies started observing the holiday for all U.S. soldiers ... recorded Memorial Day celebrations that we learned about the Black community's ...

From the Revolutionary War to today’s conflicts, Black soldiers have bravely served in America’s military, fighting for freedoms they often couldn’t enjoy themselves. Memorial Day gives us a ...

UNITED STATES, — Memorial Day is one of the United ... and were buried in unmarked graves. Black residents of Charleston decided to give these fallen soldiers a proper burial.

Juneteenth, the June 19th federal holiday that commemorates the end of America’s slavocracy and celebrates freedom for ...

Memorial Day may be the unofficial start of summer, but it is also time set aside to remember this country’s fallen soldiers. Many Black folks roll their eyes at what this day means, but they ...

Leading historians aim to restore and grow respect for enslaved people and their descendants on Juneteenth, commemorating the ...

At the Camp William Penn Museum in Cheltenham, thousands of Black Civil War soldiers are remembered for their contributions ...

Black Americans in Charleston created the first large-scale tribute to dead soldiers. They understood that freedom wasn’t free and simply wanted to thank them. That Memorial Day story didn’t ...

One day, our children will take their children on a journey through this graveyard and tell our stories,” Sarah Scully, a U.S ...