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DC Emancipation Day

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04/01/2021 - 6:30pm

Jazz & The Struggle for Freedom, Equality and Justice with Professor Herbert Smith

04/07/2021 - 6:30pm

Triumph of Freedom – The DC Emancipation Story with Historian, C.R. Gibbs

04/13/2021 - 6:30pm

Reconstruction from 1865-1890 and its Impact Then & Now with Dr. Frank Smith Jr.

04/14/2021 - 6:30pm

The Office of the Secretary Presents: DC Statehood Now with Former Mayor Sharon Pratt, Shadow Senator Paul Strauss, Charles J. Moreland, DC Vote’s Bo Shuff & Jamal Holtz of 51 for 51

04/15/2021 - 6:00pm

Mayor Muriel Bowser Presents: D.C. Emancipation Day Virtual Kickoff Celebration “From Enslavement to Statehood - Representation, Identity, and Diversity"

04/15/2021 - 7:00pm

Westminster Presbyterian Church in Southwest DC Presents: Remember the Pearl, Commemorating the Historic Escape for Freedom by Enslaved Persons in 1848 From the Southwest Waterfront with C.R. Gibbs & Dawne Young, Edmonson Descendant

04/16/2021 - 11:00am

DC Emancipation Day Celebration – Mt. Zion-Female Union Band Historic Memorial Park Foundation (Georgetown)

04/16/2021 - 12:00pm

DC Emancipation Day On Line Commemoration Celebrating DC Emancipation with a Tribute to Loretta Carter Hanes, “The Reviver of the Modern Day DC Emancipation Day Celebration”

04/16/2021 - 4:00pm

Mayor Bowser Presents: Becoming Douglass Commonwealth, from DC Disenfranchisement to Full Democracy

04/16/2021 - 6:00pm

Emancipation Day Closing Concert Presented by the Anacostia Coordinating Council, DC Vote, 51 for 51, Indivisible, League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia, and the ACLU of DC

04/16/2021 - 6:30pm

Sigma Delta Tau Legal Fraternity (the nation's oldest and largest fraternity of predominantly African American attorneys, judges and law professors) welcomes Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton for a Virtual Conversation on the Importance of DC Statehood