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History Happy Hour APX: No Safety for Union Men

Date(s)

  • October 15, 2019 | 6:30 pm

On April 16, 1866, a race riot erupted in Norfolk, Virginia. Discover the limits of the U.S. Army’s protection for African Americans and their civil rights when faced with ex-Confederates’ paramilitary violence during the early years of Reconstruction. Speaker: Brianna Kirk, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia