CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — An Emancipation Day Parade will be held in Charleston on Wednesday to commemorate the decree issued by President Abraham Lincoln that changed the trajectory of America and ...
OPINION: The proclamation — issued Jan. 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln — didn’t bring immediate freedom for the approximately 4 million Black people living in enslavement at the time. But the ...
2010-02-07T14:53:07-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/612/20100207145317003.jpgClip: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Clip: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ...
The United States has yet to officially apologize for the enslavement of African Americans, and many scholars and activists have called for some form of reparations for decades. President Joe Biden ...
Loretta Carter Hanes was researching at a library in her hometown of Washington, D.C., when she came across a piece of local history that surprised her. She learned that in April 1862, President ...
ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous ...
House Democrats proposed legislation Wednesday to remove the Emancipation Memorial from Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C., which they said portrays a racially insensitive image of President Abraham ...
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Citadel boss Ken Griffin scoops up Abraham Lincoln-signed Emancipation Proclamation, 13th Amendment for $18.1M
Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin added two of the most iconic artifacts in American history to his growing collection of rare documents — spending a combined $18.1 million for items signed ...
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