Fort Pillow Massacre On April 12, 1864 Confederate troops, commanded by General Bedford Forrest, attacked Fort Pillow, Tennessee. Union troops holding the fort were outnumbered and no match for the 1500-2500 Confederate soldiers attacking them. Although there was not an official surrender it was pretty obvious that the Union soldiers were defeated and had given […]
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In May 1961, a group of Black and white men and women left Washington, DC on two public buses. The group was traveling to states in the south to test the United States Supreme Court decision that “segregation in interstate bus and rail stations was unconstitutional.” The bus trip was organized by the Congress of
ol5 Historic Elections Who Made History? This blog post highlights historic elections and trailblazing African Americans elected to key positions in government. They include the first blacks elected to congress, the first black elected to a governorship and of course the first black president. November 1966 Edward W Brooke (1919-2015) of Massachusetts became
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