National World War II Museum visitors can learn about the contributions, struggles and victories of Black Americans during ...

A free symposium at the museum Feb. 15 will look at African American engagment in World War II and its place in social ...

In the lead up to and during World War II the military establishment continued to maintain that African-Americans soldiers were not as capable as their white counterparts and needed more intensive ...

After the United States entered World War II, Roosevelt quickly moved to shore up African American support and silence foreign propaganda about the treatment of the negro in America. He ordered ...

In areas of society such as housing, education and employment, the Jim Crow laws meant that African Americans experienced significantly worse conditions than white people. For example, in ...

Race relations and the fight for ethnic equality have been an ongoing pursuit since the birth of the nation. Every facet of ...

Alfonso Domingo, co-director of the documentary “Invisible Heroes: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War”, explains the unknown work of the men who defended the rights denied to them in ...

One of the newer exhibits at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson is about African Americans who served during World War II ...

Peter Bentzon (ca. 1783–after 1850) was not only a free man; he was also a silversmith and jeweler who worked in Philadelphia and on the Caribbean island of St. Croix. Bentzon’s work is recognized ...

In honor of Black History Month, there are several exhibits visitors can view at the National Afro-American Museum & Cultural ...

Lt. Col. Harry T. Stewart Jr. of Michigan, one of the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Airmen, has died. He was born on ...