female re-enactors of distinction
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Black Women in DC Bring to Life the Untold Stories of Overlooked Black Women in Civil War History
A group of black women in Washington, D.C., are part of an acting troupe that gives voice to the nameless, faceless black women of the Civil War in a different spin on re-enactment groups. Female Re-Enactors of Distinction, or FREED, was founded in 2005 in association with the African American Civil War Museum in D.C.,…