April 16th is D.C. Emancipation Day. This year, celebrate 158 years of the History of D.C. Compensated Emancipation and Learn About the First Freed. Gather to a virtual program of Speakers, On-line Exhibits, Encore of Past Parades, […]
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3Mar Annual Wreath Laying Ceremony 4pm
To mark the Battle of ADWA and to honor Ethiopian and African American Veterans in the Pan African victory of the Battle (Mar. 1, 1806), an event will be held on Sunday at the African […]
DC Emancipation Day: 16April
African American Civil War Museum and Memorial 1925 Vermont Ave, NW Washington, D.C. 20001 Join us for the 3rd Annual Reading of the names of the First Freed under the DC Compensated Emancipation Act in […]