Discover America with American Mosaic!
January 04, 2013
Green Day performing in Las Vegas last September
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
I’m June Simms.
On our show this week, news on Lady Gaga, Green Day and other stars of the music industry…
We tell also tell about “The Impossible,” a new movie about the disastrous Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.
But first, we take a rare look at one of the most important documents in American history.
Emancipation Proclamation Exhibit
This week, the United States marked the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. The document freed slaves in the southern states that were fighting to secede --- to separate from the United States. President Abraham Lincoln signed the document on Jan. 1, 1863.
The federal government held a public exhibition of the Emancipation Proclamation this week in Washington. Christopher Cruise tells about the rare showing.
The National Archives put the proclamation on display for just a few days. It is a rare copy because it is signed by President Lincoln, and because it has the presidential seal, although the years have destroyed much of the seal.
While it did not immediately free slaves in all of the United States, the Proclamation did lead to the approval of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. That measure ended slavery in the United States. The fight over the 13th amendment is the subject of director Steven Spielberg’s current movie “Lincoln.”
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