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D.C. EMANCIPATION DAY - APRIL 16, 2010
COMMEMORATION WEEK HONORS THE ANCESTORS AND ADVOCATES FOR D.C. STATEHOOD (POLITICAL FREEDOM)
Celebrate
with your family, friends, and neighbors as you learn D.C.'s unique history and commemorate the 148th D.C. Emancipation Week/
Day as the only state holiday in the District of Columbia!
Celebrate, April 10- 19, 2010, the History of D.C. Compensated
Emancipation and learn about the First Freed.
Speakers, Exhibits, Parade Floats, Wreath Laying, Lectures, Contests, Singing, Re-Enactments, Poetry, Films, Forums,
and More!
Events schedule to include:
Sunday, April 11 at 11 a.m. at historical, The Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, 1701 15th Street, NW(202) 234-0300 FILM
DOCUMENTARY by John P. Davies III and Ayo Handy-Kendi on Mrs. Loretta Carter Hanes, Reviver of
D. C. Emancipation Day and RECOGNITION CEREMONY and light refreshments. Monday, April 12, 2010 starting 7 p.m. –
9 p.m. Charles Sumner Museum, 1201 Sevententh Street, N.W., Great Hall Film shown on DCTV throughout month of April.
See viewing schedule: http://www.dctvonline.tvEMANCIPATION CEREMONY at AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MEMORIAL, (Corner of “U” Street &
Vermont Ave., NW -- on the Green Line) Wreath Laying Ceremony, re-enactments Buffalo Soldiers, youth choir. Thursday,
April 15, 11am. Info: (202) 667-2667 www.afroamcivilwar.orgD.C. EMANCIPATION DAY RALLY & MARCH: Friday, April 16th, 2010 starting at 11AM. RALLY: 11:00am at Franklin Square
(13th & Eye Streets, NW), Speakers: Dr. E. Gail Anderson-Holiness., Rev. Graylin Hagler, Councilmembers Micheal
A. Brown, Yvette Alexander and Vincent Gray, Senators Michael Brown and Paul Strauss, Singer, Lucy Murphy and Washington Youth
Choir, Emancipation Re-enactment by Friends, D.C.Emancipation Day, Libations, Ayo Handy-Kendi MARCH: 12:30 pm to D.C.
Historical Society (9th & K Streets, NW) with Film - D.C. in the 70's including Emancipation/Civil Rights contents, discussion AFTER
PARTY: 4 -7 p.m., Bus Boys & Poets, 14th & V, N.W. Celebrate, Dine, Forum with ONE DC CONTACT: Friends of DC
Emancipation Day, Friends_DCED@yahoo.com, 202-232-2500 or 202-635-9337
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