Starts:

Tuesday February 20, 2024

    12:00 PM

Ends:

    2:00 PM

*For non-member event reservations: please email pfitzgerald@democraticwoman.org or telephone (202) 232-7363 Ext. 402 (voicemails will also be accepted).*

Frank Smith, director of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum, will speak about the largely unknown 209,145 Colored Troops who bravely fought for freedom in the Civil War and the upcoming reopening of the museum in the historic Grimke School. Dr. Smith founded the AACWM and also served four terms as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia.

EVENT DETAILS:

- Remarks and Q&A, in-person and via Zoom.
- Noon bar opens, lunch optional, 12:30–2 p.m. program
- $10 lecture or Zoom only, $30 members and $35 guests for lunch. Cash bar.

Dr. Frank Smith was born in 1942 in Newnan, Georgia and attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he was a founding member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He left to join the Civil Rights Movement, and from 1962 to 1968, worked with SNCC organizing and registering African Americans voters in Mississippi and Alabama. He moved to Washington, D.C., and became a researcher for the Institute for Policy Studies and later earned his Ph.D. from the Union Institute in Ohio.  In 1982,  Smith was elected to the DC City Council and was subsequently elected to serve four terms on the Council.  In 1998, he became chairman of the board and chief executive officer for the organization that established the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum that opened in January 1999 . Smith has received numerous awards for his civic, community and political leadership.