Descendants of Prominent Civil Rights Leaders Gather at the White House in a Historic Meeting

Descendants of Prominent Civil Rights Leaders Gather at the White House in a Historic Meeting

February 15, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the descendants of some of the most prominent civil rights leaders from the 1950s and ’60s and other foundational historic figures, who gathered at the White House on Tuesday, some convening in the same room for the first time.

The families of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Emmett Till, and Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, among others, were scheduled to attend.

Harris praised the descendants of "extraordinary American heroes" who, she said, embody the promise of the nation and the Constitution.

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