Yesterday Senator Warner joined Governor Terry McAuliffe, Congressman Bobby Scott and Virginia Senator Henry Marsh in Richmond to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

They greeted seven of the original Freedom Riders at the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial, following a bus ride tracing part of their route down from Washington. The Freedom Riders were accompanied by student leaders from D.C’S Howard and Georgetown Universities. 

As Governor of Virginia, Senator Warner launched the effort to erect the memorial, which sits on the grounds of the Virginia State Capitol and honors the Commonwealth’s civil rights leaders.