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White paper poster. “EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION, PICNIC, ELECTRIC PARK, Under Auspices Waterloo Branch N.A.A.C.P., FRIDAY, AUG. 3, 1934, WATERLOO - - IOWA” printed in blue ink at poster’s anterior. Donated to the museum by Mrs. Sylvester B. Howell following the death of her husband, manager of the Howell Printing Company in Waterloo, in 1971. Emancipation Day was an American holiday celebrated by Blacks in commemoration of the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies on 1 August 1834. The first Emancipation Day celebration in Iowa was held in Muscatine in 1857. The holiday came to Waterloo in the 1910s, following significant black migration to the city. The NAACP negotiated annually with the ownership of Electric Park, an amusement park adjacent to the National Dairy Cattle Congress grounds, to reserve the park for an entire day. In addition to the regularly-offered amusement park entertainment, there was usually a parade, speakers, and dancing at the Electric Park Ballroom. Emancipation Day has been largely replaced by Juneteenth in Waterloo.
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Title:
NAACP Poster for Waterloo's 1934 Emancipation Day Celebration
Date Created:
1934
Description:
White paper poster. “EMANCIPATION CELEBRATION, PICNIC, ELECTRIC PARK, Under Auspices Waterloo Branch N.A.A.C.P., FRIDAY, AUG. 3, 1934, WATERLOO - - IOWA” printed in blue ink at poster’s anterior. Donated to the museum by Mrs. Sylvester B. Howell following the death of her husband, manager of the Howell Printing Company in Waterloo, in 1971. Emancipation Day was an American holiday celebrated by Blacks in commemoration of the abolition of slavery in the British West Indies on 1 August 1834. The first Emancipation Day celebration in Iowa was held in Muscatine in 1857. The holiday came to Waterloo in the 1910s, following significant black migration to the city. The NAACP negotiated annually with the ownership of Electric Park, an amusement park adjacent to the National Dairy Cattle Congress grounds, to reserve the park for an entire day. In addition to the regularly-offered amusement park entertainment, there was usually a parade, speakers, and dancing at the Electric Park Ballroom. Emancipation Day has been largely replaced by Juneteenth in Waterloo.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans Black people Social movements Enslaved persons--Emancipation National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Picnics
Contributor (Person):
Howell, Sylvester B.
Location:
Iowa--Waterloo
Language:
zxx;eng
Contributing Institution:
Grout Museum District
Extent:
2 pages
Genre:
posters
Type:
Still Image Text
Identifier:
gmd_1971_021_013_001
Filename:
1971_021_013_better_version.jpg
Source
Preferred Citation:
"NAACP Poster for Waterloo's 1934 Emancipation Day Celebration", Amplifying Black Voices of Iowa,
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https://username.github.io/clir-abvi-portal-aaslh/items/gmd_1971_021_013_001.html
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