Family Reunion: African American Descendants of the Underwood Convention Delegates and Reconstruction Legislators
Monday, July 06, 2015
Time: 6:30 PM-8:30 PM
Place: House Room 3, State Capitol,  Free but space is limited. RSVP to [log in to unmask] by June 30, 2015.

The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission will present a free public forum on the legacy of African American members of the 1867-1868 Virginia Constitutional (Underwood) Convention and the General Assembly from 1869 to 1890. The event is cosponsored by the Virginia House of Delegates, the Senate of Virginia, and Library of Virginia as a part of the commission's commemorative events for the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.

The panelists include the Honorable Viola O. Baskerville, former secretary of administration and a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates; Ajena Rogers, a historian, a supervisor/ranger for the National Park Service's Maggie Walker National Historical Site, and a descendant of an African American member of the Virginia House of Delegates; Juanita Owens Wyatt, a King Commission member and also a descendant of African American members of the Virginia House of Delegates; and the Honorable Mamie E. Locke, vice chairwoman of the King Commission and chairwoman of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus. The forum will be moderated by Dr. Lauranett L. Lee, curator of African American history at the Virginia Historical Society.

For additional information, please contact Brenda H. Edwards, Division of Legislative Services, General Assembly Building, 2nd Floor, 201 North Ninth Street, Richmond, VA 23219; [log in to unmask] or (804) 786-3591, ext. 232. Persons planning to attend this program should enter on Bank Street.





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