10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Opening Ceremony 10:00 a.m. at Union Temple Baptist Church,
1225 W Street SE., featuring student winners of the park’s annual
oratorical contest, The Washington Revels’ music group and Hari Jones, Assistant Director and Curator at the
African American Civil War Memorial and Museum will deliver keynote remarks on
African Americans in the Civil War and the War’s legacy today.
March back to the two blocks to Frederick Douglass National
Historic Site with a fife and drum corps and enjoy a variety of activities on
site until 4:00 p.m. live re-enactors of the Massachusetts 54th Black
Colored Troops will be doing an encampment behind the house that will include
live firing demonstrations, kid’s activities, collect National Park Service
Civil War Trading Cards from around the National Capital Region, take a tour of
the Frederick Douglass House, enjoy Douglass speeches from the front porch, and
experience a mobile Civil War museum in our parking lot brought to us by the
Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission.
Everything is Free!
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