Civic Education


What is Civics?

Civics is the study of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.

Congressman Josiah T. Walls of Reconstruction-era Florida sits for a photo.

The walls club

The Walls Club, named in honor of Josiah T. Walls, Florida’s first American Freedman to serve in the U.S. Congress, provides nonpartisan civic education workshops to community members of all ages, with a focus on the relationship between descendants of U.S. slavery and the American government. Please register here to participate!