PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Senator Turner joins students in discussion of Ohio African Americans in the Civil War

State Senator Nina Turner (D-Cleveland) with students from Washington Courthouse High School

From The Columbus Dispatch:

For eight months, the students in Washington Court House High School’s research history class worked to get recognition for hundreds of Ohio African-American veterans of the Civil War.

Yesterday, clad in dresses and ties, they sat in an ornately decorated conference room in the Ohio Statehouse and heard firsthand how their efforts were paying off. Read more here.