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Image: President Barack Obama views the Emancipation Proclamation in the Oval Office 2010-01-18

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Description: President Barack Obama views the Emancipation Proclamation with a small group of African American seniors, their grandchildren and some children from the Washington, D.C. area, in the Oval Office, Jan. 18, 2010. This copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, which is on loan from the Smithsonian Museum of American History, was hung on the wall of the Oval Office today and will be exhibited for six months, before being moved to the Lincoln Bedroom where the original Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863.
Title: President Barack Obama views the Emancipation Proclamation in the Oval Office 2010-01-18
Credit: The Official White House Photostream [1]
Author: White House (Pete Souza) / Maison Blanche (Pete Souza)
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