WHAT: The Clinton School will be ringing the bell 13 times as part of the “Let Freedom Ring” commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Arkansas’s ratification of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. The Arkansas General Assembly voted to approve the 13th Amendment on April 14th, 1865. Over 400,000 slaves in Arkansas were freed. The bell-ringing is sponsored by the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: Clinton School of Public Service, Sturgis Hall (1200 President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72201)
About our bell: Originally on “The Eagle,” a train that ran from St. Louis, Mo. to Mexico City, the bell was later displayed in the Missouri Pacific Station in Little Rock. After the restaurant in the Missouri Pacific Station closed, the bell was acquired by private owners and then later donated to the Clinton School of Public Service.
For more information and to see a full list of participants, visit http://www.arkansascivilwar150.com/
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