African American soldiers and white officers from ... The following spring, the Confederate Congress passed a law that allowed the death penalty for white officers of black units and provided ...

African-American soldiers were celebrated as returning heroes after ... foundation for the gradual independence of African peoples. He organized a Pan-African Congress in February 1919 in Paris with ...

The 116th House also boasts more women of color than ever before, including the first Native American women to serve in Congress and the first African-American women to represent Illinois and ...

1964. Library of Congress The case was named after Oliver Brown of Topeka, Kansas, an African American man whose daughter Linda faced a long commute to school every day. Linda had been denied ...

1919 - THE FIRST PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS Racist treatment reinforced ... This was organised by the African American thinker and journalist, W.E.B. DuBois. Fifty seven delegates attended representing ...