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Happy 1️⃣6️⃣1️⃣st DC EMANCIPATION DAY, y’all! #FirstFreedLastFree #TheLastColony #FreeDC #DCstatehood #FreeDCnow
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16 July 1790: Pres. #Washington signs the Residence Act, establishing the District of #Columbia as the #capital of the U.S. D.C. is picked to appease pro-slavery states who feared a northern capital as being too sympathetic to abolitionists. #history #ad amzn.to/2DMI3Tf
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16 July 1790: Pres. Washington signs the Residence Act, establishing the District of #Columbia as the #capital of the U.S. D.C. is picked to appease pro-slavery states who feared a northern capital as being too sympathetic to #abolitionists. #history #ad amzn.to/2DMI3Tf
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We're almost ready to march in the #DCEmancipationDayParade2019! "We're Still Not Free Until We #FreeDC! #StatehoodNow!" LET US BREAK THE CHAINS THAT BIND US! #FirstFreedLastFree #DCEmancipationDay2019 #DCEmancipationDay #DCStatehood
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Even before #DCEmancipationDay became a public legal holiday for the District of Columbia on April 16, 2005, there was activism in 2003 on its behalf by @StandUp_FreeDC members @MsFreeDC @AyoHandyKendi and #MarilynPrestonKillingham. #FirstFreedLastFree #FreeDC #DCstatehood #YayBo
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Thank you @RepRichardNeal (D-Mass.-1st) – the 157th cosponsor of #HR1291, the #WashingtonDCAdmissionAct, introduced by @EleanorNorton (D-D.C.). #TheOldColonyState lookin’ out for #TheLastColony #DCstatehood #DCEmancipationDay #FirstFreedLastFree
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Thank you @NormaJTorres (D-Calif.-35th) – the 156th cosponsor of #HR1291, the #WashingtonDCAdmissionAct, introduced by @EleanorNorton (D-D.C.). #EUREKA The #DCStatehoodCoalition is kickin’ @rse and takin’ names – literally! #DCstatehood #DCEmancipationDay #FirstFreedLastFree
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Thank you @RepCarbajal (D-Calif.-44th) – the 154th cosponsor of #HR1291, the #WashingtonDCAdmissionAct, introduced by @EleanorNorton (D-D.C.). #EUREKA Congrats to the #DCStatehoodCoalition! #DCstatehood #DCEmancipationDay #FirstFreedLastFree
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Thank you @RepSusanDavis (D-Calif.-53rd) – the 153rd cosponsor of #HR1291, the #WashingtonDCAdmissionAct, introduced by @EleanorNorton (D-D.C.). #EUREKA Congrats to the #DCStatehoodCoalition! #DCstatehood #DCEmancipationDay #FirstFreedLastFree
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Remembering @marionbarryjr on the 82nd anniversary of his birth in Itta Bena, Mississippi -- and his arrival in the District of Columbia in 1965! #MayorForLife #FreeDC #StatehoodNow #DCstatehood #FirstFreedLastFree
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