Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller's sculpture at Harriet Tubman Square in Boston (Photo by Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Black History Month will commence on Feb.
1 with National Freedom Day, a day of observance that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.The day marks the signing of a resolution between former President Abraham Lincoln and Congress that became the 13th Amendment, outlawing slavery.
Lincoln signed the measure on Feb. 1, 1865, although it wasn’t ratified by states until much later.According to the Library of Congress, Richard Robert Wright, Sr., who was once enslaved, fought to have a day that celebrates freedom for all Americans.