{"id":17150,"date":"2023-06-14T12:33:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T12:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/?p=17150"},"modified":"2026-02-27T21:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T21:20:52","slug":"a-view-from-the-vault-ebony-magazine-special-edition-100th-anniversary-of-the-emancipation-proclamation-september-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.udel.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/14\/a-view-from-the-vault-ebony-magazine-special-edition-100th-anniversary-of-the-emancipation-proclamation-september-1963\/","title":{"rendered":"A View from the Vault: Ebony Magazine Special Edition, 100th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, September 1963"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Arline Wilson, Special Collections<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA View from the Vault\u201d showcases some of the unique, notable or rare items that are a part of the Special Collections and Museums holdings at the University of Delaware. Each month, we highlight a different work and share interesting facts or intriguing histories about it. If you are interested in seeing any of the materials featured in person or want to learn more about any work showcased in the series, please contact Special Collections and Museums at AskSpec<\/a> or AskMuseums<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The cover of the September 1963 special issue of Ebony<\/em> magazine.<\/p><\/div>\n

Special Issue of Ebony<\/em> Magazine, September 1963<\/p>\n

Littleton and Jane Mitchell Papers<\/p>\n

Finding Aid information: MSS 0629, Series I.V.I.B., Box 45, Folder 25<\/p>\n

Special Collections, Gift of Philip Vann Mitchell, 2010<\/p>\n

This month\u2019s post commemorates the Juneteenth federal holiday. Although it officially became law on January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation merely marked the legal<\/em> end of slavery in Southern states. Slavery continued to reign in Confederate-controlled locations, especially in westernmost states. Juneteenth commemorates the end of military<\/em> efforts to maintain slavery in the U.S., which occurred on June 19, 1865, when General Granger and 2,000 Union soldiers rode into Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth has long been celebrated and recognized by African Americans as the nation\u2019s second Independence Day, and in 2021, Congress passed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, which President Biden signed into law, officially recognizing the day as a federal holiday.<\/p>\n

The 1963 anniversary issue of Ebony<\/em> magazine, the first Black-oriented magazine in the U.S. to attain national circulation, was the largest single issue in the magazine\u2019s history, and it was \u201cdevoted to the story of 100 years of hope and struggle that embody the spirit of Juneteenth.\u201d Most notably, Allan Morrison\u2019s article, \u201c100 Years of Negro Entertainment,\u201d provides a fascinating genealogy of Black performing arts in the U.S., detailing historical and social changes that enabled Black participation in American theater. The article traces how race relations over the last century were strongly connected with African Americans\u2019 status as citizens, and how their increased connection to freedom directly correlated to their ability to artistically express themselves.<\/p>\n

In addition to offering a smorgasbord of articles tracing various aspects of Black life and culture since emancipation, the 236-page edition serves as a time capsule of African American life and culture in the early 1960s, replete with images of a young Miles Davis and advertisements that tell a history of Black print culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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