Did you know . . . that many all-Negro regiments fought with valor in the ranks of the Union Army during the Civil War? That one, the 54th Massachusetts, received the highest praise of both Union and Confederate officers after their famous charge at Fort Wagner?

Did you know . . . that in 200 major engagements, 36,000 Negro soldiers gave their lives for this country?

Did you know . . . that during Reconstruction two Negro senators and fourteen Negro representatives served with distinction in Congress?

This Zenith Book brings to light the many outstanding deeds of both northern and southern Negroes, and captures the spirit that inspired the Abolitionists, the "conductors" of the Underground Railroad that smuggled 100,000 slaves out of the South between 1810 and 1850, and the writing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

From the dust jacket