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President Abraham Lincoln

NEW YORK, NY - A detail of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Melissa Harris-Perry: The truth about the Emancipation Proclamation

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VIDEO - On Saturday, 'Melissa Harris Perry' revisited the Emancipation Proclamation and what it meant, for the rebellious south, for President Lincoln, and for the enslaved people impacted -- or bypassed - by it...
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Emancipation Proclamation Stamp dedication

New stamp celebrates Emancipation Proclamation's 150th anniversary

Alexis Garrett Stodghill
theGRIO REPORT - The U.S. Postal service has released a limited-edition stamp to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Emancipation Proclamation Forever Stamp...
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Emancipation Proclamation

Watch Nights mark Emancipation Proclamation 150th

Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming — his final proclamation declaring all slaves in states rebelling against the Union to be "forever free."...
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Frederick Douglass: 'Black man in the White House'

Blair L.M. Kelley
theGRIO REPORT - On the 203rd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth (he was born February 12, 1809), Professor Blair L.M. Kelley examines the historic relationship between America's 16th president, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass...
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