With their cameras, they documented not just men wearing boutonnieres, women in dressmaker gowns and children in lace-trimmed dresses but typewriting clubs and high school cooking classes, college commencement days, businesses, Emancipation Day parades.
The traditional April 15 filing deadline for the Form 1040 falls on a Sunday this year, and April 16 is a holiday in Washington, D.C. (Emancipation Day), so you have an extra two days to make the most of tax deferral options.
EMANCIPATION DAY CELEBRATION, Weeksville Garden, 1698 Bergen Street, Brooklyn.
(Emancipation Day was celebrated by blacks all over the country).
In a move that antagonized many Tibetans this winter, the government declared March 28 to be Serf Emancipation Day.
In a sign of the Chinese government's tough attitude, it recently renamed that anniversary "Serf Emancipation Day".
Juneteenth, also called Emancipation Day, or Juneteenth Independence Day, holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, observed annually on June 19.
Now, it has come up with a name to celebrate the date the Communists declared rule over Tibet after forcing the Dalai Lama to flee — Serf Emancipation Day.
This month legislators in Tibet passed a bill mandating an annual celebration of that event and calling it Serf Emancipation Day.
The state-run media posted photographs of smiling Tibetans playing tug of war and other games in commemoration of what the Chinese government terms "Serf Emancipation Day".
The view was staggering and the sound of a steel band drifted up from Soufrière, the former capital 2,461ft below, where they were celebrating Emancipation Day.
