Editors’ Note: Sourced from a New York Times opinion piece, November 7, 2020. History tells us that “20 and odd” African captives were aboard a Dutch man o’ war ship that deposited them in Jamestown, Virginia, in August 1619, the… Read More ›
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A Civil War Medal of Honor
Editors’ Note: Anderson, pictured above, was a Union Navy sailor during the Civil War and the first African-American to receive America’s highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor. His citation read, Served on board the U.S.S. Wyandank during a boat expedition up… Read More ›