Clinton School to Participate in “Let Freedom Ring” Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of Arkansas’s Ratification of the 13th Amendment

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.

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