Events Calendar
This commemoration of the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act will kickoff with a program inside the Museum beginning at 10 am. It will follow with a wreath-laying ceremony to honor 3,100 enslaved persons freed in 1862 and anti-slavery activists at the African American Civil War Memorial.
DC Emancipation Day Program sponsored by DC Reading is Fundamental
Metro: U St/African-Amer Civil War Memorial/Cardozo – green/yellow line
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