the nation’s four million newly emancipated citizens transformed Independence Day into a celebration of black freedom. The Fourth became an almost exclusively African American holiday in the ...

The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men ... My subject, then, fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's ...

Woodson — founder of the Association for the Study of African ... Day. It is celebrated annually on June 19. On June 17, 2021, President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day ...

Narrator: In the 1950s and 60s, many colonised countries that were part of the British Empire gained their independence. Ghana was one of the first African ... Independence Day has been celebrated ...

The hundreds of thousands of African Americans who served in the U.S. Army during World War I and returned home as heroes soon faced many more battles over their equality in American society ...

You can start your adventure at the Independence Visitor Center ... or secure your tickets to the spooky day of family fun ...