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At a Civil War battlefield in Mississippi, there's a new effort to include more Black history

Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history. As a small Black girl, she would walk to school through Vicksburg National Military Park — the hilly battlefield where Union and Confederate soldiers fought and died over whether the U.S. would continue allowing slavery in the South. Union forces won a pivotal campaign to capture the town of Vicksburg and gain control of the Mississippi River in 1863, hastening the war's end.

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At a Civil War battlefield in Mississippi, there's a new effort to include more Black history

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history.

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At a Civil War battlefield in Mississippi, there's a new effort to include more Black history

At a Civil War battlefield in Mississippi, there's a new effort to include more Black history
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At a Civil War battlefield in Mississippi, there's a new effort to include more Black history

At a Civil War battlefield in Mississippi, there's a new effort to include more Black history
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At a Civil War battlefield in Mississippi, there's a new effort to include more Black history

A Civil War battlefield in Mississippi is providing more information about Black history. Recent ceremonies honored the memory of 18 Black soldiers and two white officers who fought for the

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