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.
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.
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.
A survey of Washington, DC, as a laboratory for democracy. Part of the Howard University Lecture Series.
Historian, Author, Lecturer C.R. Gibbs tells the story of the 1st United States Colored Troops, the District’s Black Civil War regiment.
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.
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.
A children’s program and play vividly reviewing the history of emancipation parades in the District of Columbia. Part of the Howard University Lecture Series.
The DC Archives and Tenleytown Historical Society are partnering to sponsor two entertaining and informative lectures: "The Triumph of Freedom: The Story of DC Emancipation", by C. R. Gibbs, and "We Are Here: A Story of a Family of Free Blacks in the City of Washington", by Donet D. Graves, Esq.
Wed, March 28 1 pm
African American Civil War Museum
1925 Vermont Avenue, NW