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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 ...
On Emancipation Day, Sept. 22, 1898, the Muncie Daily Times wrote that “on the twenty-second day of September, 1862, Abraham Lincoln, in his capacity as president of the United States, affixed ...
Juneteenth, a combination of the words June and 19th, is also known as Emancipation Day. It commemorates the day in 1865 - after the Confederate states surrendered to end the Civil War - when a ...
1 August, Emancipation Day in Jamaica is a public holiday and part of a week-long cultural celebration, during which Jamaicans also celebrate Jamaica Independence Day on 6 August 1962. Both 1 August and 6 August are public holidays. Emancipation Day had stopped being observed as a nation holiday in 1962 at the time of independence. [24]
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
The Antiguan Carnival is a celebration of emancipation from slavery, held annually on the island of Antigua. It is a thirteen-day festival of colorful costumes, beauty pageants, talent shows, and music. [1] [2] [3] The festival begins in late July and ends the first Tuesday in August, known as Carnival Tuesday.
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
Emancipation Day; Elizabeth Key Grinstead (or Greenstead) (c. 1630 or 1632 – 1665) [1] [2] [3] was one of the first Black people in the Thirteen Colonies to sue for ...