History & Events

In January 1941 the War Department formed the all-black 99th Pursuit Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Corps (later the U.S. Army...

Meredith was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on June 25th, 1933. From 1951 to 1960 he served in the American Air...

The 21-year-old volunteer graduated from flight training on May 5, 1917 after spending more than 12 harrowing months fighting in...

Nineteenth Century African American soldiers who served in the Western United States have generally been known a “Buffalo Soldiers.”  In...

Carthage had been settled by Phoenicians as a city-state in North Africa near the current Tunis. In his 1961 work,...

According to Ivan Van Sertima. "It is generally assumed that the movement of Africans into Europe in significantly large numbers...