Americans have a right to assemble and a right to petition for the redress of grievances. They will use those rights this ...

WASHINGTON (AP ... bronze likeness of Douglass joins sculpted statues of fellow blacks Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Sojourner Truth in Emancipation Hall. Douglass was born a slave ...

Cannon's journey to Washington technically began in 2018 when state lawmakers passed a bill creating a statue of Cannon that would be displayed at National Statuary Hall, where every state has two ...

The eight-foot-tall bronze statue will be unveiled on September 24 in Emancipation Hall before joining the National Statuary Hall Collection. Cash's likeness will depict him holding a Bible and a ...

The statue will be unveiled at a ceremony of Sept. 24 at Emancipation Hall in the Capitol's Visitor Center alongside political leaders and Cash's family. Cash was born in Kingsland, Ark., ...

DC abolished slavery in 1862 after President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation ... statues than any other US city. After the abolition of slavery Washington ...

The museum was unsure about what to do with “Emancipation Group” (1873 ... one of which remains on view in Washington, DC. The other bronze monument was removed from display in Boston in ...

House Democrats proposed legislation Wednesday to remove the Emancipation Memorial from Lincoln Park in Washington ... legislation to remove the statue Wednesday – the first day of Black ...

WASHINGTON, DC (7News) — A D.C. lawmaker is working to remove a civil rights statue for the second time. The The Emancipation Memorial, also known as the Freedman's Memorial, was dedicated in ...

Laboulaye wanted to link the emancipation ... statue, it will board a ship at the port city of Le Havre on June 19 and reach New York on July 1. Its final destination will be Washington, DC ...

Washington, DC Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton says Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation statue “fails to note how enslaved African Americans pressed for their own emancipation.” ...

ROCKBRIDGE Co, Va. (WDBJ) - Archer Alexander is known to be the face of the Emancipation. His statue sits right next to Abraham Lincoln’s in Washington, D.C. and Boston, but he also has roots in ...