January 1, 2013, marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and in light of the historical milestone, two educators — Deborah Willis, New York University photographic historian, and ...
On Jan. 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, granting freedom to all enslaved persons ...
United States National Archives in Washington, DC with a huge flag hanging on its columns.(Getty Images/iStockphoto/OGphoto) “The people to whom this order was addressed, were the last group of ...
On June 19, 1865, Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger stepped onto a balcony in Galveston, Tex. — two months after the Civil War had ended — and announced that more than 250,000 enslaved people in ...
On 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the legendary Emancipation Proclamation—one of the most significant documents in human history and a ...
“Black history is our history. This is our time to serve, and this is our time to be a part of our own history. Starting in ...
On June 19, thousands gathered in Knoxville's Caswell Park to celebrate Juneteenth, a holiday marking the date in 1865 that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been ordered freed by ...
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Charleston celebrates Emancipation Day
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) -Over 150 years ago, on January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation ...
On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in Washington, D.C., freeing more than 3,000 people. It was a joyful day in the midst of the Civil War that came after decades of effort ...
Union morale was faltering in the spring of 1863, when a photograph that came to be known as “The Scourged Back” appeared in Harper’s Weekly. The image — of an escaped enslaved man exposing a treelike ...
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