No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

In this lesson, students explore the realities of life after the Emancipation Proclamation and learn about courageous individuals who fought against the inequalities African Americans experienced.

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Director of the African American History and Culture Museum Lonnie Bunch looks at the forces that brought about the January 1, 1863 order. Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Our ...

One hundred and sixty years ago this month, U.S. General William T. Sherman launched his famous March to the Sea, a 250-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah that crushed the Confederacy and helped end ...

Director of the African American History and Culture Museum Lonnie Bunch looks at the forces that brought about the January 1, 1863 order. Ouija Board: The Mysterious Origins of a Cultural ...

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Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 that Gordon Granger, a general in the Union Army, led thousands of Union troops into ...

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In April 1863, mere months after enslaved people were declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation, Gordon stumbled into a Union soldier encampment just outside Baton Rouge, Louisiana.