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Black Civil War reenactor finds eerie link to past
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A copy of the card found by Ancestry.com researchers that shows that Osborne s great-great-grandfather, William Lacy, served during the Civil War. MUST CREDIT: Calvin Osborne
Several times a year for almost three decades, Washington, D.C., resident Calvin Osborne has suited up in a Civil War uniform to reenact the stories of Black soldiers who fought for the abolition of slavery.
Ever since he saw the 1989 movie Glory, about one of the Union Army s first Black regiments, Osborne said, he has felt a calling to honor Civil War troops of color.
Black Civil War reenactor learns his great-great-grandfather fought in the war
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“Get the niggers,” was their slogan, / “Kill them, burn them, set the pace. / Let them know that we are white men, / Teach them how to keep their place.” A. J. Smitherman, “The Tulsa Race Riot and Massacre” (1922)
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