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Emancipation Day celebrates when Andrew Johnson freed his slaves on August 8, 1863. Sam Johnson, a former slave, set up the ...
Emancipation Day celebrates when Andrew Johnson freed his slaves on August 8, 1863. Sam Johnson, a former slave, set up the ...
The 2025 Eighth of August festivities in Paducah will run through Sunday, several of them hosted by the W.C. Young Community ...
ALTON - Alton has a long-standing Juneteenth Celebration tradition and the Juneteenth Committee is already in preparation for ...
Her accounts of this and other unfair lynchings infuriated some whites. Her pamphlet, “Southern Horror: Lynch Law in All Its ...
What maybe the first ever celebration of the “Eighth of August” in Sevier County is taking place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7 at the Williams Family Seymour Branch Library.
Tennessee celebrates Emancipation Day on August 8, marking the day many enslaved Tennesseans learned of their freedom. While President Andrew Johnson freed his slaves, his legacy is complex due to his ...
Black August Resistance Month 2025 is here! Black August was created to honor and promote the teaching of George Lester ...
“For a handsome, steel-engraved picture of our late esteemed fellow-Cincinnatian, Salmon P. Chase, send $10,000 to the U.S. treasury,” Cincinnati Post reporter Eugene Segal wrote in 1928.
The event honored the day of Aug. 8, 1863, when Tennessee officially recognized President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation ...
HBO's "The Gilded Age" has explored what it was like for wealthy Black Americans in the late 1800s in New York City.
Hutchinson will host its 137th annual Emancipation Day celebration with events throughout the weekend in the Salt City.