For Juneteenth on Morning Edition, professor Nathan Connolly reflects on the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation, and NPR staff voice the document in its entirety. Today, the country observes ...
Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among ...
As the Sons of Veterans of the Civil War read the Emancipation Proclamation Monday, Indiana University Northwest junior and vice president of the IU Northwest Black Student Union A’Reya Davis said she ...
On the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in the state of Florida, it was read again – 159 years later. General Edward McCook first read ...
Every seat was filled during the Knott House Museum's Emancipation Day celebration and reenactment May 20. The event featured a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation from Brian Bibeau, who's been ...
Today, the country observes Juneteenth. The holiday marks the arrival of U.S. Army troops in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. The troops told some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free ...
For Juneteenth on Morning Edition, professor Nathan Connolly reflects on the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation, and NPR staff voice the... Observing Juneteenth with a reading of the ...
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