Emancipation Proclamation As the glowing sun set over the bloody fields of Antietem, the Civil War became a different War. Five days after the battle at Antietem was won, armed with pen and paper, Abraham Lincoln changed the war when he issued, one of the most important and controversial documents in America history, the Emancipation Proclamation. Congress was urging emancipation. Escaped slaves were fleeing to the Union army as it advanced in the South, complicating …showed first 75 words of 648 total…

…showed last 75 words of 648 total…but a new one was to begin. One that still exists today. One that does not shrink but rather grows. Racism was and is upon us. With the arrival of the 20TH century, tens of thousands of African Americans left the farms of the South to travel north in search of justice, economic independence and hopeful of a new beginning, found themselves crowded into the poorest sections of cities, facing poverty, hatred, intolerance and indifference.