Favorite #30

PICA 05476

AF – African-Americans – Emancipation Day

June 19, 1900

Grace Murray Stephenson took this photograph at the June 19, 1900 celebration of Emancipation Day. The celebration was held in the “East Woods” on 24^th Street. The photo accompanied a story describing the event that the photographer sold to the San Francisco Chronicle.

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