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Black soldiers are honored, name by name, at a Civil War battlefield

Feb. 29, 2024 22:13 PM EST

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — 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...