Douglass Institute of Government
African-American Civil War Memorial Project
"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves"
"MEN OF COLOR, TO ARMS!" - FREDERICK DOUGLASS March 2, 1863
African-American Civil War Memorial Lecture Series

Saturday, May 22, 1999
Presents
FOUNDERS DAY OF
U.S. COLORED TROOPS
American Civil War
The USCT Founders Day event at the National Archives
was broadcast nationally on June 1st and repeated on June 3rd.
C-SPAN.org has the Videotape
African-American Troops in the Civil War
on sale at their online store.
Historical Ironies of the Civil War
Black Southerners in Gray
(The Myth)		 White Southerners in Blue
(The Truth)

FRIDAY, MAY 21st, -> 9:00am-11:00am
(An Introduction)
National Archives and Records Administration
Theater

THURSDAY, MAY 26th, -> 7-9pm
FRIDAY, MAY 27th, -> 7-9pm
 African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation
Visitors Center

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