Thousands celebrate DC Emancipation Day with a parade, live entertainment, and fireworks, marking the 20th anniversary of the public holiday.

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

Thousands turned out on Sunday to partake in D.C.’s parade commemorating Emancipation Day, the day in 1862 that 3,000 enslaved people in the District were given their freedom. D.C.’s annual ...

click image for close-up Click here for the text ... The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented ...

That version has been popularized by false images seen in the 1939 film ... "We're looking at the largest emancipation event in American history," Parten said. That alone counters the narrative ...

In this lesson, students explore the realities of life after the Emancipation Proclamation and learn about courageous individuals who fought against the inequalities African Americans experienced.