New Year's Day this year marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, which effectively broke the back of the slave trade. NBC's Ron Mott reports. (Nightly News)
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New Year's Day marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation – when President Lincoln sign an order that broke the back of the slave trade. NBC's Ron Mott reports. (Nightly News)
Rarely seen, the original Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln January 1, 1963 is currently on display at the National Archives. Catherine Nicholson and Reginald Washington, of the National Archives, explain the value of the original document and its historical significance. (Nightly News)
Speaking at a reception for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, President Obama says, HBCU founders knew "as Frederick Douglass once put it, that education means emancipation." (NBC News)
Addressing graduates at historically black Hampton University, President Obama says the college founders recognized "as Frederick Douglass once put it, that 'education means emancipation.'" Watch his entire speech.