It’s been 50 years since 1963’s March on Washington (itself timed to the Emancipation Proclamation’s centennial) featuring Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Over the next five years, ...
United States President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) Emancipation Proclamation Centennial celebrations, etc https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball ...
Cal Johnson, born into slavery, became Knoxville's first Black millionaire after emancipation. Tennessee celebrates Emancipation Day on August 8, marking the day many enslaved Tennesseans learned of ...