Sunday, April 14th: 2-4 pm – D.C. Emancipation Day: From Franklin Park to Mount Vernon Square – Hear why D.C.’s enslaved persons were granted freedom nine months before nation-wide emancipation occurred and where annual celebrations […]
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experiments in freedom: the legacy of the dc compensated emancipation act
7 – 8:30 PM online tonight On the 160th anniversary of the DC Compensated Emancipation Act, how does its legacy permeate education, politics, and family histories? Following years of activism led by local Washingtonians including […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
DC Emancipation Day On-Line: April 16, 2020, at NOON
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, […]
African History and Culture Lecture Series in April
Wednesday, Apr 11, 7:00pm “Crusade for Liberty: Frederick Douglass, the Civil War, and DC Emancipation” by CR Gibbs Woodridge Library, 1801 Hamlin Street NE Washington DC 202-541-6226 Tuesday, Apr 17, 7:00pm “An Army of Educators” […]
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