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Jacksonville holds 4th annual celebration of Florida’s Emancipation Proclamation Day
FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville· 1 day agoJacksonville city leaders and state officials commemorated Florida’s 159th Emancipation Proclamation...
'Mayteenth' in Tallahassee: Emancipation Proclamation read publicly, 159 years later
Tallahassee Democrat· 1 day agoOn the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first...
Florida Emancipation Day again recognized in Gainesville at museum in Black community
The Gainesville Sun via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThat day is when enslaved Africans first learned of their freedom in Tallahassee, more than two...
Tallahassee celebrates Emancipation Day with bells, dramatic reading
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOn May 20, 1865, the Emancipation Proclamation was first read on the steps of the Knott House by...
MISTER LINCOLN, SISTER ACT & More Set for Ford's Theatre Society 2024-2025 Season
Broadway World· 14 hours agoThe season lineup includes the beloved music-filled holiday production of Charles Dickens's A...
Culpeper NAACP to host Juneteenth celebration
The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star· 17 hours agoFirst celebrated in Texas, Juneteenth recognizes the emancipation of African American slaves by President Abraham Lincoln’s ...
Takeaways from Tallahassee — Celebration time
Florida Politics· 4 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 ...
‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ tells DODEA students about struggle behind federal holiday
Stars and Stripes· 2 days agoMore than 200 students and teachers at Yokosuka Middle School began their Monday morning with a...
Documenting and preserving Virginia’s largest, most revered trees
Virginia Mercury via Yahoo News· 2 days agoVirginia is home to nearly 80 national champion big trees, consistently placing the commonwealth in...
Exploring Maryland: What to do and see in ‘Little America’
Fox News· 1 day agoMaryland, "America in Miniature," possesses a remarkable array of experiences that attract history...