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Honoring African American Veterans for Black History Month

Posted 2/1/2012 By Laura June Davis

Happy Black History Month! Today—and throughout the month of February, we honor those African Americans who fought in the Civil War.
 

Image Credit: "A Negro Regiment in Action," Harper's Weekly, March, 14, 1863.
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