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A meeting held by Paul Lawrence Dunbar at the Zion Baptist Church celebrating the annual Emancipation Day on January 4, 1918. The celebration included speeches, the reading of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, as well as singing.

This poster announces the Academy of Music's Fifth Annual Liberty Celebration and Emancipation Exercises in Philadelphia on Monday, January 1, 1923. Festivities begin at 8 P.M. and features orator, Miss Nannie Burroughs, A.M.--attributed as "our most…