click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document ... and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held ...

9-10.5 Analyze how a text uses structure to emphasize key ... This video explores the Great Migration and the idea that the Emancipation Proclamation did not live up to its promises.

Austin East High School student Alicia Lewis delivered a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. The document itself did not end slavery. Instead, it promised freedom would come with a Union ...

In recognition of Black History Month, Clark Curtis will be taking a closer look at some of the people, places, and events that have helped mold the story of Washington’ s wealth of history and her ...

Text of Maine Gov. John E. Baldacci’s “Bates College Day” proclamation, May 2, 2005, honoring the College’s 150th anniversary of its founding WHEREAS, Maine’s educational leaders in the 1850s saw a ...

The result of the document was the enlistment of formerly ... the International African American Museum and the Charleston Emancipation Proclamation Association are hosting a parade at 11 a.m ...

The nation’s longest-running parade made a return in honor of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was declared Jan. 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. This liberated African Americans from ...