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'Mayteenth' in Tallahassee: Emancipation Proclamation read publicly, 159 years later
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 6 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· 3 days agoThis week, many Floridians celebrated Emancipation Day to commemorate May 20, 1865 —the day the ...
Emancipation Proclamation read on Knott House Museum steps
Tallahassee Democrat· 6 days agoToday, Reginald Ellis, Ph.D., Provost Professor at Florida A&M University, read the document in...
National Archives' Historic Showcase of Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth Order in DC
Hoodline· 5 days agoArchivist of the United States, Dr. Colleen Shogan, stated, “The Emancipation Proclamation and...
Tallahassee celebrates Emancipation Day with bells, dramatic reading
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 7 days agoPark Avenue. In the place where the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in Florida, this...
Freedom Day: How Florida celebrates Emancipation Day
WCTV Tallahassee· 6 days agoGeneral Edward McCook read the Emancipation Proclamation at the Knott House in Tallahassee, freeing slaves in Florida, on May 20, 1865.
Amber Rose is right: Joe Biden doesn’t care about Black people
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 3 days agoOPINION: The "Muva" of hip-hop's Donald Trump endorsement exposes a fundamental misunderstanding of...
Kentucky governor takes action on Juneteenth holiday and against discrimination based on hairstyles
FOX 25 Boston· 3 days agoKentucky Gov. Andy Beshear designated Juneteenth as a holiday for state executive branch workers on...
James Longstreet’s Lessons in Leadership
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 2 days 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...
On this day in history, May 23, 1900, Sgt. William H. Carney receives Medal of Honor
Fox News via Yahoo News· 4 days agoOn this day in history, Sgt. William Carney received the Congressional Medal of Honor — the first...