CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Charleston celebrated Emancipation Day with a parade and a post-program. The nation’s longest-running parade made a return in honor of the Emancipation Proclamation, which ...

A century and a half ago, today, one of our nation’s greatest presidents launched this nation on a “new birth of freedom.” On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ...

The International African American Museum will host several events Wednesday and Thursday to commemorate Emancipation Day.

Almost 160 years ago, multiple activism groups began the journey to bring equal opportunity, citizenship and treatment for all people in the United States. Later, in 1889, Hutchinson began celebrating ...

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1862: President Abraham Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all those enslaved in rebel-held territory would be "thenceforward, and forever, free." 1862: President ...

It's the 160th anniversary of the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee, which occurred more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Word reached Florida’s ...

On the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in the state of Florida, it was read again – 159 years later. General Edward McCook first read ...

This year is especially notable because, during the Proclamation’s centennial in 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial and called upon the nation to live up to ...