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K. Leroy Irvis, Pa.'s first Black House speaker, blazed trails and battled discrimination | Column


K. Leroy Irvis, Pa.’s first Black House speaker, blazed trails and battled discrimination | Column
Updated Mar 14, 2021;
Posted Mar 14, 2021
K. Leroy Irvis, Pennsylvania House speaker for eight years in the 1970s and 1980s, poses in the House chamber in Harrisburg in 1985. The trailblazing lawmaker died 15 years ago this month. (Associated Press file photo)
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On the South Lawn of the Capitol Complex at Fourth and Walnuts streets stands a monument.
Dedicated last year, it depicts four Black figures who had ties to the Old 8th Ward, a predominantly African American and immigrant neighborhood in Harrisburg that was removed when the Capitol Complex expanded in the early 20th century. ....

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How Black soldiers helped end the US Civil War


How Black soldiers helped end the US Civil War
Jacqueline Cutler, New York Daily News
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The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis; NYU Press.
“The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship” by Deborah Willis; NYU Press (256 pages, $35)

It wasn’t just a war for freedom. It was a war for the future.
Black soldiers during the Civil War weren’t just fighting for themselves. They were fighting for their children and all who came after. They were fighting for tomorrow.
“The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship,” by Deborah Willis, delivers much more than the formal, carefully posed photographs of men in uniforms and their heartfelt letters home and to the world. ....

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Remarkable unseen pictures shed light on courage of black Civil War soldiers


New photography book sheds light on the experience of black Civil War soldiers in never-before-seen photos
Book explores the role of photography in telling the story of African Americans during the US Civil War 
As well as soldiers, the photographs also celebrate African American surgeons and a war correspondent
Harriet Tubman was the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the Civil War  ....

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