Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, were part of the defending forces of Washington, D.C. Photo shows two rows of African Americans holding rifles at Fort Lincoln in 1864.
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A Flame of Hope After Richmond Burns
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But with Blood
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African American extended family arriving in Chicago from the rural South, ca. 1920
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The Price of Freedom
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The Omaha race riot of 1919 in Omaha, Nebraska
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“We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.”
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“Why does America tolerate the lynching of Negroes?”