Category: Emancipation Proclamation
Happy Emancipation Day!
When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, Black communities around the United States were already celebrating before the official…
Charleston To Hold Its 153rd Annual Celebration of Emancipation Tonight and on New Year’s Day
Charleston, S.C., will hold its 153rd Annual Emancipation Day Celebration tonight and tomorrow. The festivities mark the January 1, 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation…
January 1 Was Celebrated in Black Communities as Emancipation Day, a Commemoration of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
January 1 was celebrated in Black communities as Emancipation Day, a commemoration of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Here is a newspaper article on Emancipation Day Jan….
Thomas Nast Depicts the Emancipation of the Slaves in a Giant Cartoon
New Year’s Day is also the anniversary of Lincoln’s January 1, 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. To celebrate the signing, Tomas Nast sketched a…
A New Monument to Emancipation in a Small Virginia Town
Hundreds of Southern towns and cities erected Confederate statues in the decades after the Civil War. Almost no statues or monuments marked the military service…
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