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The reknown West Virginia State University Jazz Band and the Howard Univeristy Choir comemmorate the sesquicentennial anniversary of DC Emancipation Day with a celebration in music. A pre-concert reception will be held in the theater lobby from 6:15pm to 7:00pm.
DC Councilmember Vincent Orange invites you to the District of Columbia Emancipation Day 150th Anniversary Opening Ceremony and to March Through the Monuments. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Mayor Vincent Gray, Chairman Kwame Brown, Rev. Al Sharpton, Civil Rights Activist Dick Gregory, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, DC Vote Ilir Zherka, former Congresswoman Connie Morella, MLK Foundation CEO Harry E.
Historian Dr. Jonathan Sarna, a leading expert on Jewish American history, presents his new book When General Grant Expelled the Jews. As a Civil War general, Ulysses S. Grant expelled Jews from the area under his control in 1862. Grant later attended the 1876 dedication of the Adaas Israel Synagogue, today the Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum, making him the first sitting president to attend a synagogue service. Accompanied by best-selling author, accomplished journalist and political commentator Steven V.
The Downtown Cluster Geriatric Daycare Center celebrates Emancipation Day with freedom songs in a gospel festival, featuring the New Royal Harmoneers, Triple A Choir, Canaan Baptist Church Choir and the DC Choral Ensemble.
Historian of the African Diaspora, C.R. Gibbs, will lecture on the inspiring achievements of little-known African American women in one of the crucial periods of our nation's history. Gibbs will uncover a new cast of women whose actions, large and small, local and national, and set against the backdrop of the ongoing conflict, helped to mark them as firebrands of freedom.
This event sponsored by the Afro-American History Society at NARA looks at the DC Compensated Emancipation Act of April 16, 1862. Part of the Howard University Lecture Series.
An examination of the complex legacy of resistance to enslavement in Washington, DC. Part of the Howard University Lecture Series.
A presentation on the rich collection of primary sources that can be used to document Washington, DC, emancipation history.
This program features a documentary short portraying the events which led to emancipation in Washington, DC, while highlighting the tirelss efforts and strategic ideologies of four African American abolitionists. Part of the Howard University Lecture Series.
Emancipation in the District of Columbia is studied using the history of the United States Colored Troops and African American involvement in the American Civil War.
