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“As American citizens, we have a right….”: Death, Protest, and Respect in Alexandria, Virginia - The Journal of the Civil War Era
One of the newest—yet oldest—members of the National Park Service’s African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN) is the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, first established in 1864 in Alexandria, Virginia. The sites in the AACRN, created by Congress in 2017, “offer a comprehensive overview of the people, places, and events associated with the civil rights … Read More Read More
