Hello, Moviepedians.
Today, we Americans are gathered here to celebrate the abolition of slavery in the United States of America.
For context, during the American Civil War, president Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. The proclamation is that 3.5 million African-Americans, living in the Confederate States, would have their status changed from slave to free. In 1865, the United States Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, which would abolish slavery. In June of the same year, almost all enslaved people are freed by the Union Army or by state abolition laws. Despite this, segregation and discrimination against African-Americans was legal, primarily in the South, until abolished by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act.
-- Buddy731 (Message Wall) 23:59, 19 June 2025 (UTC)