Friday, October 24, 2014
BLACK CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS GET RETROACTIVE EQUAL PAY IN JUNE 1864
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/equal-pay.html
Back pay and equal pay was voted into law by Congress to black troops in June 1864, retroactively. Many, if not all, colored units fought without pay rather than to be paid inferior wages or subjected to inferior conditions.