The League of Iowa Human & Civil Rights Agencies

WASHINGTON — The White House installed a rare signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in the Oval Office on Monday, just in time for President Obama to mark his first Martin Luther King’s Birthday in office. Mr. Obama invited a small group of African-Americans, all octogenarians or older, and their grandchildren to visit with him and view the document, one of 48 “authorized copies” that President Abraham Lincoln signed in 1864.

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