Kellie B. Gormly

Denied burial alongside Union soldiers killed during the Battle of Gettysburg, the 30 or so men were instead buried in the all-Black Lincoln Cemetery.

The Richmond Bread Riot broke out during the Civil War when working-class women in the South became fed up with food shortages.

Seating was segregated, and the ceremony's only Black speaker was forced to drastically revise his speech to avoid spreading "propaganda."