Frederick officials on Wednesday unveiled a marker commemorating the historic Emancipation Association building as dozens of attendees listened to speakers speak about Frederick’s history of ...

FREDERCISKBURG — Four months before Abraham Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, John Washington, an enslaved man from Fredericksburg, took matters into his own hands. On April 18 ...

Nance Legins-Costley and her son William Costley are recognized as the first enslaved individuals emancipated by Abraham Lincoln. They were also Pekin residents, but Tazewell County Clerk and Recorder ...

The Salerno Colored School will be officially designated as a Florida Historic Marker. The schoolhouse was one of the only in the region to teach Black students. The structure survived decades of ...