National Freedom Day - Wikipedia
National Freedom Day is a United States observance on February 1 honoring the signing by President Abraham Lincoln of a joint House and Senate resolution that later was ratified as the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
National Freedom Day: Deepening Our Resolve To Fight Human …
Feb 1, 2021 · Today marks National Freedom Day, a day that commemorates President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the joint resolution that established the Constitution’s 13th Amendment abolishing slavery in the United States.
NATIONAL FREEDOM DAY - February 1, 2025 - National Today
Feb 1, 2020 · It’s National Freedom Day! This day was founded to celebrate the freedoms we enjoy as U.S. citizens, freedoms that we should never take for granted. Specifically, the holiday commemorates the day in 1865 when President Abraham Lincoln signed what would later become the 13th Amendment.
National Freedom Day 2025 in the United States - timeanddate.com
National Freedom Day is an observance in the United States that honors the signing of a resolution that proposed the 13th amendment of the nation's constitution on February 1, 1865. Abraham Lincoln, who was the president at the time, signed the resolution to outlaw slavery.
The mastermind behind National Freedom Day - CNN
On Jan. 25, 1949, President Harry Truman signed a bill establishing National Freedom Day on February 1. Though the day was not made into a federal holiday, Truman wrote in the proclamation...
Presidential Proclamations: National Freedom Day - Truman …
February 1st is National Freedom Day, a time to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the resolution that became known as the 13th Amendment.
Proclamation 2824—National Freedom Day - The American …
Done at the City of Washington this 25th day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-third.
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National Freedom Day - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Created in 1942 by a Philadelphian born in slavery, the annual National Freedom Day commemoration each February 1 calls attention to the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which ended slavery, and the continuing struggle for …
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National Freedom Day commemorates the signing by Abraham Lincoln on February 1, 1865, of a resolution proposing the thirteenth amendment to the US Constitution to outlaw slavery in the United...