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First Step to Freedom: Abraham Lincoln's Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

First Step to Freedom:


Abraham Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation


Monday, October 15, 2012 at 1 pm & 9pm, and

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Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 1pm & 9pm


Rare public exhibit on view in the Tilles Center Atrium. Public viewing is from 1 to 9 pm.

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See one of the nation's greatest documentary treasures in Lincoln's Own Handwriting. Also view the original draft of a speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1962 celebrating the Proclamation's centennial.

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