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Emancipation Proclamation read on Knott House Museum steps
Tallahassee Democrat· 5 days agoToday, Reginald Ellis, Ph.D., Provost Professor at Florida A&M University, read the document in...
'Mayteenth' in Tallahassee: Emancipation Proclamation read publicly, 159 years later
Tallahassee Democrat· 5 days agoOn the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first...
The 44 Percent: Florida’s Emancipation Day + Biden’s billion-dollar promise + A Black pioneer in...
Miami Herald via AOL· 2 days agoThis week, many Floridians celebrated Emancipation Day to commemorate May 20, 1865 —the day the ...
James Longstreet’s Lessons in Leadership
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoGrant (he attended Grant’s wedding) had no illusions as to what the war was about: slavery. As he recounted in his memoirs, the Emancipation Proclamation
Jacksonville holds 4th annual celebration of Florida’s Emancipation Proclamation Day
FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville· 5 days agoJacksonville city leaders and state officials commemorated Florida’s 159th Emancipation Proclamation...
Local historian reflects on life of Salt Lake's Emancipation Day queen
KUTV Salt Lake City· 16 hours agoIn 1898, 15-year-old Elnora Dudley was crowned Salt Lake City’s Emancipation Day Queen. Salt Lake’s...
Tallahassee celebrates Emancipation Day with bells, dramatic reading
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 5 days agoWar soldiers. 11 a.m. - Church bells in Tallahassee will ring for two minutes to celebrate Florida's...
Takeaways from Tallahassee — Celebration time
Florida Politics· 7 days agoWhile June 19 is the official federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery, Gen. Edward McCook first read the Emancipation Proclamation on the steps ...
Civil War tablets honoring Amherst veterans help open high schoolers’ eyes to unsung Black history
Daily Hampshire Gazette· 15 hours agoAfrican American soldiers from Amherst who served in the famed 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment...
Why Red Foods Are Traditionally Eaten On Juneteenth
Daily Meal via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAlthough Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was delivered two years prior, freedom wasn't fully realized until the news was announced to the 250,000...
