The first Black congregations in America pre-date the nation’s founding in 1776. Since then, African American churches continue to support faith and the fight for civil rights across the country ...

The church and others will work with high school students and youth groups to educate them on the Black soldiers who fought in the Civil War and hailed from either their county or town.

Preachers like John Marrant proclaimed the gospel across cultures. But the persistence—and defense—of slavery challenged ...

Archaeologists have identified two potential mass graves of Black Union soldiers who were targeted by Confederate guerrillas ...

Yet the independence of black churches was curbed by law and by the white Southern response to slave uprisings and abolition. In the years leading up to the Civil War, the black church found its ...

Live Science reports that archaeologists believe they have found evidence of a forgotten and grim event of the Civil War. On ...

The nearby Pleasant Garden Cemetery across Shepherd Hills from his property is additional evidence to this black settlement.

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United ... The presence, after the war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality and liberty.

The landmark church was a foundation of the civil rights movement with Martin ... Jim Crow laws, where black American citizens were subjected to fewer benefits and pay than their white ...

Yet the independence of black churches was curbed by law and by the white Southern response to slave uprisings and abolition. In the years leading up to the Civil War, the black church found its ...

The first Black congregations in America pre-date the nation's founding in 1776. Since then, African American churches continue to support faith, and the fight for Civil Rights across the country ...