ByKayla Benjamin In 1866, four years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the proclamation ending slavery in the District, leaders in D.C.’s Black community began an annual tradition of the Emancipation Day parade. Black civic organizations and veterans’ groups marched past the White House and all over the District in defiance of the era’s “Black codes,” […]

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