African American Civil War Muesem

There have been many African Americans who do not really know how important the civil war was for our freedom. The risk that many African American men took for the future and for their own lives was a strong decision. When black men served in the war and survived, they got the opportunity to be free and live without slavery. Unfortunately not many men survived and had the chance to be free.

As a African American college graduate from Morehouse University Frank Smith Jr understood how important it was to let other black people know how important the war was and how many men that had survived and actually were free from slavery. Today was the grand opening of new African American Museum and Memorial which was originally opened in 1998, but is now in a bigger building. This museum means a lot to the black community because it will give us a better understanding of what it took to become free.