Guinness World Records confirmed her as the worldâs oldest living person. According to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, which keep a list of supercentenarians aged over 110, the only other living person born in the 1800s is Emma Morano, of Verbania, Italy, who is a few months younger.
She scoured the archives for any and all information about emancipation day and the parades.5 Starting in 1991, Hanes organized events that would commit the day to public memory.6 Eventually, Emancipation Day was made an official public holiday in the District of Columbia in 2005.
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on September 2, 1862 after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam.It was finally signed on January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Declaration did not free all the slaves but it is vital because it did free a large amount of slaves.he proclamation declared forever free slaves that were in the Confederacy, or rebel held territories. that did not include the states in the Confederacy under Union control which were Tennessee, western Virginia, and southern Louisiana.