Civil War and Civil Rights

Name: Civil War and Civil Rights
Start: 2025-06-25T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-25T16:00:00-04:00
Location: U.S. Capitol Visitor Center

06/25/2025|2:00 pm
U.S. Capitol Washington, DC, 20510
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Join us for a free three-part program:

First, watch a scene from a popular film about President Abraham Lincoln’s commitment to end slavery in the United States. We will discuss the political pressures of the time and reasons for amending the Constitution.

Then, examine a reproduction of the desk that was used when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law in 1965.

Last, take a guided tour of the U.S. Capitol featuring some of the Americans whose extraordinary actions changed the course of U.S. civil rights history.