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Emancipation Proclamation read on Knott House Museum steps
Tallahassee Democrat· 2 days agoToday, Reginald Ellis, Ph.D., Provost Professor at Florida A&M University, read the document in...
Jacksonville holds 4th annual celebration of Florida’s Emancipation Proclamation Day
FOX30 / CBS47 Jacksonville· 2 days agoJacksonville city leaders and state officials commemorated Florida’s 159th Emancipation Proclamation...
'Mayteenth' in Tallahassee: Emancipation Proclamation read publicly, 159 years later
Gannett via AOL· 2 days agoOn the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first...
Why Red Foods Are Traditionally Eaten On Juneteenth
Daily Meal via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoAlthough Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was delivered two years prior, freedom wasn't fully realized until the news was announced to the 250,000...
Tallahassee celebrates Emancipation Day with bells, dramatic reading
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 2 days agoWar soldiers. 11 a.m. - Church bells in Tallahassee will ring for two minutes to celebrate Florida's...
Freedom Day: How Florida celebrates Emancipation Day
WCTV Tallahassee· 2 days agoGeneral Edward McCook read the Emancipation Proclamation at the Knott House in Tallahassee, freeing slaves in Florida, on May 20, 1865.
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...
25 Juneteenth Recipes to Serve at This Year’s Picnic or Cookout
PureWow via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSummer may seem far away, but it’ll be here before we know it, and with it, Juneteenth. This holiday...
Florida Emancipation Day again recognized in Gainesville at museum in Black community
The Gainesville Sun via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThat day is when enslaved Africans first learned of their freedom in Tallahassee, more than two...