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 ...

Members of the St. Louis community gathered 161st annual Emancipation Proclamation celebration at Greater Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church in the 1600 block of n. Euclid Avenue in St. Louis on ...

Tuesday will mark 162 years since the D.C. Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 freed thousands of enslaved people in the District. The city commemorated the milestone Sunday with a parade, music and ...

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 ...

Terrell Freeman, right, raises a cup of water during the Libation Ceremony. The Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum held a renaming ceremony & remembrance of Maryland’s 160th Emancipation Day Friday.

This undated photo provided by Sotheby's shows a printed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln that was owned by the late Robert F. Kennedy. It will be auctioned in New York ...

Historic Annapolis hosts a tour of the historic Black cemetery Brewer Hill in honor of Emancipation Day, Nov. 1, in Maryland. All funds raised from two sold-out tours are to be donated to the cemetery ...

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 ...

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 ...