Welcome to the Veterans & Visionaries Project webpage!

Veterans & Visionaries is an educational research project funded by the Veterans Legacy Grants Program.

Our project tells the story of Veterans who served in a segregated or recently integrated military, participated in the Civil Rights Movement, and who are buried in state or national memorial cemeteries in the Southeast. 

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Calendar

The Veterans & Visionaries exhibit titled “The Quiet Activism of African American World War II Veterans” is currently traveling to the following locations:

Debut at Switzer Library: Friday, February 6 — 4 p.m.

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Drop-In at Switzer Library: Friday, February 6 – Saturday, February, 28

Exhibit Debut

Resources and Tools

Check out this interactive map developed by the Veterans & Visionaries team

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