In the thirty years leading up to the Civil War ... and with the end of the war in 1865, long after the Emancipation Proclamation had pronounced slaves in seceded lands free, all African Americans ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

In 2025, D.C. is celebrating 20 years of officially observing the holiday. A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will ...

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War, freeing enslaved Black people in the Confederate states on Jan. 1 1863 and allowing the newly freed Black ...