April 16, 2021, 6PM 11AM TIME HAS CHANGED Join us for our annual DC Emancipation Commemoration Event. April 16, 1862, Congress passed a compensated emancipation act which allowed 3,100 people to be freed in the […]
Day: April 14, 2021
Researching the USCT in Pension Files
April 16, 2021, 4:30pm Join us and our guest Bernice Bennett to learn how to research the United States Colored Troops pension files.
African American Women in the Suffrage Movement
Apr. 15 | 7:00 PM Join us and our guest Dr. Ida Jones to discuss the work of African American women in the suffrage movement during the early 20th century.
The Importance of DC Statehood
April 16, 2021 – 6:30 PM EST on Zoom Sigma Delta Tau Legal Fraternity (the nation’s oldest and largest fraternity of predominantly African American attorneys, judges and law professors) welcomes Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton for […]
Emancipation Day Closing Concert
April 16, 2021 – 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST Presented by the Anacostia Coordinating Council, DC Vote, 51 for 51, Indivisible, League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia, and the ACLU of […]
Becoming Douglass Commonwealth From DC
Produced by NEWorks Productions Our one-hour television special that chronicles the long and complicated journey towards Washington, District of Columbia becoming our 51st state, Washington, Douglass Commonwealth. Featuring Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Rep. Steny Hoyer, […]
“The Reviver of the Modern Day DC Emancipation Day Celebration”
Friday, April 16, 2021 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm virtual Commemoration Celebrating with a Tribute to Loretta Carter Hanes Sponsors: Friends of DC Emancipation Day in association with Stand Up! for Democracy in DC (Free DC), DC Black History Celebration […]
DC Emancipation Day
Come honor and celebrate the ancestors in this sacred burial ground that also served as a stop on the Underground Railroad Join us as we celebrate and learn more about those that were Emancipated on […]
Remember the Pearl
Commemorating the Historic Escape for Freedom by Enslaved Persons in 1848 From the Southwest Waterfront with C.R. Gibbs & Dawne Young, Edmonson Descendant April 15, 2021 – 7:00 PM EST on Zoom Presented by Westminster […]
DC Emancipation eve
This panel will explore the path forward in the quest for racial equality, social justice and DC Statehood.
