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African American Civil War Museum Reopening in Washington

WASHINGTON, DC.- 2011 ushered in the beginning of a four-year celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War and the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement. For more than ten years, the African American Civil War Monument and Museum has stood as a testament to the struggle of African Americans and others to rid this nation of the scourge of slavery and racial bias. There is no doubt the fact that America is a much better place for all having shed itself of its slavery and Jim Crow past and come closer to living out the meaning of the words ‘One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for All’. Today, the museum had its Grand Opening of the new and permanent site of African American Civil War Museum. The New location is 1925 Vermont Avenue NW, directly across from the African American Civil War Monument. The new location of the museum has over $5 million of modern, highly ed