DC Emancipation Day Lights of Freedom
Honor the 8,428 African Americans buried in Walter Pierce Park.
Bound As Fast In Wedlock As A Slave Can Be: African-American Marriage, Slavery, and Freedom
A fascinating lecture about chattel slavery and the institution of marriage.
Emancipation and Home Rule: A Dual Strategy for Equality
In commemoration of the 152nd anniversary of the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act of 1862 and the 40th anniversary of DC Home Rule, distinguished panelists will discuss the symbiotic relationship between the struggle for emancipation and the struggle for home rule.
DC Emancipation Day Commemoration Wreath Laying Program
Presented by DC Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. and the African American Civil War Museum,
This is a program of Historical overviews with Dr. Frank Smith, Founding Executive Director, African American Civil War
Memorial and Museum; and C.R. Gibbs, Historian of the African Diaspora. Music from the All Souls
Jubilee Singers
Emancipation Day Ecumenical Program
A program that addresses the role of the faith-based community in the struggle for political, social, and economic oppression with the special emphasis on the abolitionist movement in the District of Columbia under the leadership of the Rev. John C. Cook, and the development of an ecumenical agenda in the struggle for full voting representation for the District of Columbia in the Congress of the United States.
Emancipation Day Song and Praises Celebration
This porogram will include songs of liberation, poetry, recitals, readings, and other performances in celebration of emancipation in the District of Columbia.
Brentwood Road: Highway to History
Historian, author, and lecturer, C. R. Gibbs will trace the largely forgotten past of a thoroughfare that at one time
formed part of the western boundary of Gallaudet University. Gibbs will reveal the fascinating stories of people, buildings,
and institutions that once existed along a lane whose history also forms an illuminating dimension of the growth and development of the nation's capital.
Emancipation and Home Rule: A Struggle for Equality in the District of Columbia
A panel of professors and students will hold a comprehensive discussion of the history, issues, and forces behind the struggle to end slavery in the District of Columbia and the struggle for home rule and self-determination.
"TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE: SOLOMON NORTHRUP'S WASHINGTON"
Join the DC Office of Public Records and the Office of Tax and Revenue for this second annual DC Emancipation Day Lunch and Learn event, as they present author, historian, lecturer, researcher and scholar of the African diaspora, C. R. Gibbs. In this fascinating presentation Gibbs will uncover stunning new information about the institution of slavery in the nation's capital as it existed when Solomon Northrup, a free man, was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into bondage in the deep south.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND THE CIVIL WAR
As a part of the Library of Congress on going series "The Civil War in America", Adrienne Cannon, from the staff of the Library's Manuscript Division, presents a lecture based on the leading Abolitionist of African heritage in America, Frederick Douglass; and the Civil War.