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Emancipation

About the Exhibit

Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963 examines the events leading up to the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and the March on Washington in 1963. Both grew out of decades of bold actions, resistance, organization, and vision. One hundred years separate them, yet they are linked in the larger story of a struggle for liberty which brought together different races, classes and ideologies and had a profound impact on the generations that followed.

Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch, Associate Professor of History, is our project scholar.

Dean B. Ellis Library
101 Cooley Dr.
(870) 972-3077
http://www.astate.edu/a/library/
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April Sheppard
(870) 972-2766
asheppard@astate.edu

Sherry Eskridge
(870) 972-3577
seskridge@astate.edu

Calendar of Events

September 3 - October 17, 2014		Traveling Exhibit Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963 Third floor, Dean B. Ellis Library

September 3, 2014 2:00 - 3:00 pm		Lecture The Promise of Freedom: The Emancipation Proclamation and the 1963 March on Washington Cherisse Jones-Branch, PhD, Associate Professor of History Third floor, Dean B. Ellis Library

September 10, 2014 2:00 - 3:00 pm		Lecture From Emancipation to Civil Rights: The Musical March to Freedom Michael Dougan, PhD, Emeritus Professor of History Fine Arts Auditorium

September 10, 2014 3:00 - 4:30 pm		Musical Performance Selected Freedom Songs Terry "Harmonica" Bean Fine Arts Auditorium Sponsored by KASU

CANCELED September 29, 2014 10:00 - 11:00 am		Lecture Sharecropper's Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition Michael K. Honey, Ph.D, Professor, Labor and Ethnic Studies and American History, University of Washington, Tacoma Spring River Room, Student Union CANCELED - TO BE RESCHEDULED SPRING 2015

CANCELED September 29, 2014 2:00 - 3:00 pm		Book Talk/Book Signing Sharecropper's Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American Song Tradition Michael K. Honey, Ph.D, Professor, Labor and Ethnic Studies and American History, University of Washington, Tacoma Third floor, Dean B. Ellis Library CANCELED - TO BE RESCHEDULED SPRING 2015

October 3 - October 17, 2014		Exhibit African American Political Cartoons, 1950-1965 Third floor, Dean B. Ellis Library

October 15, 2014 3:00 - 5:00		Lecture/Film Viewing “Riding for Justice:” The 1961 Freedom Rides Cherisse Jones-Branch, PhD, Associate Professor of History Museum 156