(Updated 9/19/2014) The National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs will commemorate the September 22, 1862 anniversary of President Lincoln’s preliminary proclamation that he would on January 1, ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, warning that any state still in open rebellion at the start of the new year would see all ...
Historian C.R. Gibbs will deliver a lecture on the history of emancipation in the nation’s capital and the role of D.C.’s colored regiment during the Civil War at 2 p.m on Saturday, April 14 at the ...