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Was the USS Monitor the most revolutionary technological development of the American Civil War?

Martin Luther King Jr.: The Man, The March, the Dream

In the summer of 1963, a convergence of opportunities presented itself for the Civil Rights Movement to take a great leap forward. Grasping the historic potential of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. sensed the need for a "sort of Gettysburg Address."

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Martin Luther King Jr.: FBI's Campaign to Discredit the Civil Rights Leader
After the March on Washington, the FBI launched a vicious campaign to utterly discredit Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From Birmingham City Jail"

ABOLITIONISTS

Silas Soule: Massachusetts Abolitionist
Dedicated Massachusetts abolitionist Silas Soule ironically gave his life for the red man, not the black.

William W. Brown: Abolitionist and Historian

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

America's Civil War: Fort Wagner and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
The doomed assault on Fort Wagner won the 54th Massachusetts a place in history, but did not win the battle for the North. No regiment could have carried the fort that day.

	America's Civil War: 54th Massachussetts Regiment
	African-American Soldiers Trained at Camp William Penn During the American Civil War
	Drones in the Great Hive: A Letter from an African-American Civil War Soldier

BUFFALO SOLDIERS: AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN THE WEST

African American Troops of Company K, 9th Cavalry Fought in the Battle of Fort Lancaster
Captain William Frohock, Lieutenant Frederick Smith and the black troopers of Company K, 9th Cavalry, received an after-Christmas surprise from Kickapoo raiders in 1867.

	Buffalo Soldiers: Sorting Fact from Fiction
	Buffalo Soldiers in Utah Territory
	African American Infantrymen in America's West

ROBERT SMALLS

Robert Smalls: Commander of the Planter During the American Civil War
When opportunity knocked, an imaginative Charleston slave sailed himself, his family, and some friends to freedom -- and set to work for the Union cause.

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN WORLD WAR II

World War II: 761st Tank Battalion
The 761st 'Black Panther' Tank Battalion was the first African-American armored unit to see combat.

HORACE PIPPIN

Horace Pippin: World War I Veteran and Artist
World War I veteran Horace Pippin used art to purge himself of the horrors of the trenches.

MARY FIELDS

Mary Fields: Female Pioneer in Montana
Although she may have been one of the toughest women ever to work in a convent, "Black Mary" had earned the respect and devotion of most of the residents of the pioneer community of Cascade, Montana, before she died in 1914.

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