Get Involved

✊🏽 Get Involved

You don’t need a title, a budget, or permission. Just a sense that the past still matters—and that democracy is worth the work.

📚 LEARN

• Read about the United States Colored Troops (USCT), whose service helped preserve the Union and redefine American citizenship:
👉 https://afroamcivilwar.org/united-states-colored-troops-history/

• Search for Civil War monuments in your state or community using the National Park Service’s database:
👉 https://www.nps.gov/subjects/civilwar/search-monuments.htm

• Explore local cemeteries, archives, and historical societies to uncover the names and lives of Black veterans in your own neighborhood.

• Share what you learn—with your kids, your neighbors, your students, your faith group.

🌿 REMEMBER

• Visit a gravesite. Many Black Civil War veterans are buried in modest or unmarked plots. A moment of silence matters.

• Use the SUVCW Graves Database to help locate Civil War veteran burial sites near you:
👉 https://www.suvcwdb.org/index.php?r=site/search

• Leave a flag, a flower, or a note of thanks.

• Host a small remembrance: read names aloud, lay a wreath, or simply gather and reflect together.

📢 SHARE

• Follow the Juneteenth Project on Bluesky and other platforms.

• Post stories, images, or reflections that honor Black veterans and the democratic ideals they fought to uphold.

• Use hashtags like #JuneteenthProject and #USCT to help others find and join this work.

• Want to add a new name to a national record? Learn how to submit a grave to the SUVCW registry:
👉 https://suvcw.org/sites/default/files/2022-11/SUVCW%20National%20Graves%20Registration%20Database%20Instruction%20Manual%202022.pdf

✍️ RECOMMIT

• Celebrate Juneteenth not just as a holiday, but as a civic responsibility.

• Speak up for liberty, equality, and the rule of law—the same ideals that led Black soldiers to fight for a country that had not yet recognized their full humanity.

• Help build a public culture rooted in gratitude—and in action.

⭐ Every act of memory counts.

The past belongs to all of us—and so does the work of making freedom real.
Join us. Carry the story forward.