| Martin Luther King asked President John Kennedy to issue a new emancipation proclamation on the centenary of the first. |
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| On Sept. 11, the day after his meeting with the general's wife, Lincoln issued a public letter countermanding Frémont's emancipation proclamation. |
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| It was an emancipation proclamation and it seemed as if every one of the more than 100,000 people in attendance received it with dancing and rejoicing as though their day of Jubilee had finally come. |
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| But Lincoln gets no credit for the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, because he didn't do it out of the pure goodness of his heart? |
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| After the Emancipation Proclamation, the Union's strategic goals were too comprehensive and inflexible to be thwarted by a single defeat. |
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| The emancipation Proclamation, as Nancy Pelosi reminds us, was an executive action. |
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| In September 1862, Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation. |
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| Based on the President's war powers, the Emancipation Proclamation applied to territory held by Confederates at the time. |
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| Thousands of slaves were freed by the operation of the Emancipation Proclamation as Union armies marched across the South. |
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| Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made ending slavery a war goal. |
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| Fivescore years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. |
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| Since the Emancipation Proclamation was based on the President's war powers, it only included territory held by Confederates at the time. |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation greatly reduced the Confederacy's hope of getting aid from Britain or France. |
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| Both the preliminary and final versions of the Emancipation Proclamation declined to emancipate slaves in loyal border states, Tennessee and the occupied regions of Louisiana and Virginia. |
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| Lincoln turns up late, and in this telling he is a bit of a waffler, trying some appeasement strategies before eventually, 150 years ago this past New Year's Day, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. |
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| Dec. 10 is devoted to books and manuscripts, including a signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation purchased by Robert F. Kennedy in 1964 and a tattered guidon recovered from the field after the Battle of Little Bighorn. |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation was an effective use of the President's war powers. |
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| In 1863, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. |
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| When the Emancipation Proclamation was announced, Tennessee was mostly held by Union forces. |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation over time would reinforce the political liability of supporting the Confederacy. |
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| Antietam is considered a Union victory because it halted Lee's invasion of the North and provided an opportunity for Lincoln to announce his Emancipation Proclamation. |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation was wildly controversial in its time, some arguing that it was an unconstitutional usurpation and others that it was an inadequate half measure. |
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| Though millions of slaves had been declared free by the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, their post Civil War status was unclear, as was the status of other millions. |
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