I did not know of the black volunteers who were not allowed to fight in the battle because of their color.
There were two further attempts to recruit black volunteers for the Colonial Army.
In the early 1860s, black volunteers for the Union army were initially rejected.
Mr. Burton said he knew that medical researchers often had a hard time recruiting black volunteers for studies.
In early December, some 150 volunteers from 38 churches, black and white, turned out to begin building a new church here.
The police credited about 15 black volunteers with saving the situation.
There are also more black and Hispanic college-bound volunteers.
Among the clips are scenes of the idealistic civil rights volunteers, black and white, who gave the lie to statements like that.
Many of the black volunteers had never sat at a table with white people before.
Townships and counties often showed less largess toward black volunteers.