Emancipation Day
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Ballou High School drum major Genuine Kensey leads the school's marching band down Pennsylvania Avenue during Tuesday's Emancipation Day parade. (Photographs by Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's nonvoting member of Congress, is joined by Mayor Vincent C. Gray as they march in the city's Emancipation Day parade Monday. The celebrated day in 1862 was about nine months before the historic Emanicpation Proclamation. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
