Fighting Prejudice, Confederates ; Search Is On for African-Americans Who Served in Civil War. Hundreds From County More Than a Parade

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In May 1865, after the Civil War ended, thousands of soldiers marched through the streets of Washington, D.C., in a Grand Review of the Armies.

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Fighting Prejudice, Confederates ; Search Is On for African-Americans Who Served in Civil War. Hundreds From County More Than a Parade

None of the 180,000 African-American troops who bolstered Union forces the last two years of the conflict were anywhere to be found, however.

The Grand Review was for white soldiers only.

So African-American women in Harri...

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