proclamation
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In 1982, Reagan issued Proclamation 4908 to declare March 21 Afghanistan Day.
From Salon • Dec. 13, 2025
When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863—declaring enslaved people in the rebellious states “forever free” and opening the Union Army to black enlistment—Douglass and other skeptics were electrified.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
They were freed by Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2025
The proclamation recognized slavery as an “inhumane practice” and the Emancipation Proclamation as having “ended its evil stain on American democracy.”
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2025
For more than one hundred years, scholars have written about the illusory nature of the Emancipation Proclamation.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing proclamation
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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The American Civil War
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The Emancipation Proclamation (1862)
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