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Cultural Tourism Emancipation Day Scavenger Hunt

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Cultural Tourism DC, in partnership with Ford's Theatre, Willard InterContinental Washington, and President Lincoln's Cottage, is sponsoring a scavenger hunt to celebrate Emancipation Day. Everyone is invited to participatae in the hunt by downloading application, SCVNOR from www.culturaltourismdc.org to learn about slavery, abolition, and emancipation in the District of Columbia.  The application will be available for downloading and use on April 13, 2012.

Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act

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The Office of the Secretary for the District of Columbia, President Lincoln's Cottage at Soldier's Home, and the Lincoln Group, partner to bring this enlightening and informative panel discussion about President Abraham Lincoln's views on the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act (Act), media reaction to the Act, and the residents of the District views on the Act.

District of Columbia Emancipation Commemoration Wreath Laying Program

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DC Reading is Fundamental and the African American Civil War Memorial Freedom Foundation and Museum present this annual Emancipation Day event with a program, music, and speeches commemorating those: who advocated for and abolished slavery, those who fought for freedom with the Civil War Union forces; enslaved persons freed.

The Meaning of Freedom!

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This event sponsored by the Adventist Student Organization  is a forum on slavery, abolition, emancipation, and the role African Americans played in the development of the nation's capitol.  Part of the Howard University Lecture Series.

Runaway Slaves and the Origins of Emancipation in Washington, DC

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Kate Masur, associate professor of History and African American Studies at Northwestern University, and author of An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, DC, to be published in paperback this fall, takes us back to the summer and fall of 1861, showing how enslaved people from surrounding Virginia and Maryland helped create a political crisis that led to Congress' famous DC Emancipation Act.

Their Valor Purchased Liberty for All: The District of Columbia’s Black Civil War Regiment

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Historian, Author, Lecturer C.R. Gibbs tells the story of the 1st United States Colored Troops, the District’s Black Civil War regiment.

Oh Freedom!

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A discussion of the long history and critical role of churches in the movement toward emancipation  in the District of Columbia. Part of the Howard University Lecture Series.

Freedom's Victory Lecture: African Americans in the District of Columbia

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Program highlights the contribution of African Americans from the inception of the District of Columbia, with a focus on public and private interests during the Emancipation era.

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