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.
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.
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.
A presentation on the early educational pursuits of young freedmen in the District of Columbia immediately after emancipation. Part of the Howard University Lecture Series.