ALPLM staff will have an activity table with hands-on crafts for children and a reproduction of the Emancipation Proclamation during the “Juneteenth Block Party” at the Illinois State Museum ...

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

The Proclamation of January 1, 1863, gets most of the attention, but it was the Proclamation of September 22, 1862, that laid much of the legal foundation on which the later Proclamation stood.

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

The Emancipation Proclamation. Share full article. Dec. 17, 1864. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 17, 1864, Page 4 Buy Reprints.

The 64th Annual Emancipation Proclamation Celebration in Gary — a constant to usher in the new year — also ushered in a new era for the Interfaith Clergy Council of Gary & Vicinity as its ...