"Despite the risk of being sold into slavery as captured prisoners of war, regardless of whether they had been free, roughly 200,000 Black men enlisted in the Union Army and Navy, fighting for a country that at the time did not even consider them citizens.

Now, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) are introducing a bill seeking to award all of them a Congressional Gold Medal posthumously in recognition of their contributions to preserving the Union and liberating — in many cases — their own family members from enslavement."

 

(The Washington Post. Full Story is HERE.) 

 

 

(Wonder how the all-but-one-member-GOP Alabama Congressional delegation will vote? IF the measure even gets a vote!)