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The Emancipation Proclamation in practice: A timeline
Stacker via AOL· 5 months agoStacker describes the events after the Emancipation Proclamation leading to the full abolition of...
Emancipation Proclamation To Be Permanently Featured At National Archives
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 11 months agoLincoln's order, which declared slaves freed in Confederate-controlled states, has been only...
What is Juneteenth and what does Abraham Lincoln have to do with it? A historian explains
Journal Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen 76-year-old Mary Clay and her family moved to Springfield from Memphis in the 1970s, she was...
'Emancipation': How far is too far when putting Black audiences through trauma? Experts weigh in
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWith slave heads mounted on sticks, bodies hanging from trees and death from labor exhaustion, Will...
Bygone Muncie: From a city-wide celebration of Emancipation Day in 1895 to Juneteenth in 2022
The Star Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI was delighted to see another Juneteenth celebration this year at McCulloch Park. While it’s only...
Celebrating Emancipation Day
The Gainesville Sun via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEmancipation Day celebrations were an important part of Black culture during the early 20th century. "We owe it to our ancestors to appreciate the...
What does Watch Night mean for Black Americans today? It dates back to the Emancipation Proclamation
Associated Press via AOL· 4 months agoThe tradition of Watch Night services in the United States dates back to Dec. 31, 1862, when many...
Many Paths: It's within our power to change the current narrative of our flawed past
The Register-Mail via Yahoo News· 1 month agoPresident Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward ...
Emancipation Proclamation issued 160 years ago today
The Monroe News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Civil War was the darkest period in American history. But from the midst of the horror came a moment of hope. Today marks the 160th anniversary of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation ...
‘African American history is American history:’ Celebrations continue ahead of 3rd Juneteenth
WJAX via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMonday marks the third-ever official Juneteenth holiday, celebrating the emancipation of all slaves....
