Category: DC Black History Happens Now
MAKING A WAY: THE POWER OF THE BLACK PRESS DURING AMERICA’S SEGREGATION ERA
TUESDAY, JUNE 8 & FRIDAY, JUNE 18 ~ 1:00 PM TO 2:30 PM ~ FREE Ida B. Wells-Barnett; the Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, and California Eagle newspapers; Ebony magazine; and local papers started by business entrepreneurs in […]
Between Freedom and Equality Wednesday
MAY 5 AT 7:30 PM From an enslaved African American purchasing his freedom to a 20th-century eminent domain land seizure, Between Freedom and Equality: The History of an African American Family in Washington, DC (June 2021) is […]
DC Emancipation Commemoration: Reading of the Names of the First Freed
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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…
DC Emancipation Commemoration: Reading of the Names of the First Freed
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 […]
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 […]
