Black men served as minutemen ... according to a 2023 U.S. Department of Education report. In 1772, John Adams, who later became America’s second president, warned his fellow Bostonians about ...

President John Adams issued a proclamation setting ... Many attendees had selected the “American” cockade, a black fabric rosette with a white button at the center pinned to men’s hats ...

who was also a commissioner of the National Portrait Gallery. It was an unusual choice because Adams was a famous landscape photographer, better known for black-and-white stills of the American West.