WASHINGTON (DC NEWS NOW) — Thousands lined Pennsylvania Avenue on Saturday for a parade that honors this date in 1862 when slavery was abolished in the District of Columbia. The first Emancipation Day Parade occurred in 1866 and happened yearly to 1901. In 2002, Former Mayor Anthony Willams made the Emancipation Day Parade an annual […]
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