Film:

History Recovered: The Civil War Union Navy is an award-winning 22-minute video describing the accomplishments of 18,000 black sailors and four of their descendants. Broadcast by ABC News,  it won the 2001 National Association of Black Journalists award as Best News Documentary.

Dr. Joseph Reidy is a professor of history at Howard University and a scholar of the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Emancipation. He wrote From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880.

Dr. Regina Akers is a historian with the Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, DC, and an expert on diversity issues in naval history. She was the keynote speaker at the Pentagon's observance of Black History Month in 2015.  Dr. Akers was the first black female to become a Navy Commissions Officer.