Here's what Frederick Douglass said during a visit to Elmira, which drew people from everywhere within a hundred miles.

Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and announced the ending of slavery in Texas through the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation ... Houston Chronicle front page from January 18, 1930 ...

Feb. 12 is Lincoln's Birthday, a legal state holiday in Connecticut. The post office will remain open, but entities like the ...

This article invites you to explore Freedmen’s Town in Houston through a virtual adventure. It highlights the area’s rich ...

The pages are the advanced text of the speech ... ago,” an echo of the Gettysburg Address to the date of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. It had been 100 years since Lincoln freed the ...

As we turn the calendar page to February, we see the celebration of Black History across our nation as a reminder of African ...

Estimated costs for the program fall somewhere around $16 trillion, the entire current-day book value of the four generations of slaves who lived in the United States from after the country’s ...

The renowned civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed a new act could be a second Emancipation Proclamation ... Eleven Titles at a Glance." Page 1. Congressional Research Service.

New defense secretary Pete Hegseth has canceled all cultural awareness months in the Department of Defense, including Black ...

Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At first glance it ...

Black History Month reminds us that it’s an appropriate time to reflect on our nation’s relentless struggles for freedom, especially those courageous people whose heroic efforts advanced the cause of ...