MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of surnames grace the towering monument, representing the more than 4 million enslaved people who were freed after the Civil War. The Equal Justice Initiative ...

Now, 160 years later, 70 Black Union military members who fought in the Civil War from 1863 to 1865 will be memorialized in a monument planned for Rocky Mount in Franklin County, Virginia ...

Montgomery’s Freedom Monument Sculpture ... which honors those who won their freedom after the Civil War. The monument has 100,000 names representing millions of Black families engraved on ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa — In 1925, an inscription was added to a monument honoring 513 Muscatine County soldiers who died in the Civil War. It reads: “May future generations here find inspiration to ...

The American Civil War ended in the 1860s. In the 1950s, the city of Montgomery adopted a flag ... memorial street or monument on public property that has been in place longer than 40 years.