Path to Emancipation Highlighted in Exhibit Traveling across North Carolina

RALEIGH, N.C. - July 26, 2013 - PRLog -- RALEIGH, N.C. -- During the 150th anniversary year of the 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, a traveling exhibit of illustrated informational panels outline the struggle for freedom by the enslaved people in North Carolina and the nation. It is traveling to state history museums, historic sites, libraries and other academic and cultural venues from July 12, 2013, to Aug. 10, 2015.

It opened at the Museum of the Albemarle (%20http:/www.museumofthealbemarle.com/) in Elizabeth City on July 12 and remains there through Aug. 10. It will travel to Fayetteville, Greensboro and Greenville through 2013.

"Freedom for All" conveys how securing freedom was more of a process than a single act or proclamation, and the exhibit highlights North Carolina's unique role in that process," notes Earl Ijames, curator of African American History at the N.C. Museum of History (http://www.ncdcr.gov/ncmoh/Home.aspx).

"Freedom for All" focuses on the status of North Carolina before the Civil War, events leading up to Lincoln's issuance of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, and outcomes and results of the document in the state and nation. The exhibit also examines some of the differences between the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, the final Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment.

The "Freedom for All" traveling exhibit (http://www.ncdcr.gov/EmancipationProclamation) and the "Freedom Coming, Freedom for All" exhibition at the N.C. Museum of History are joint projects of the N.C. Museum of History and the N.C. Freedom Monument Project. The Division of State Historic Sites and the Division of State History Museums are within the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources (http://www.ncdcr.gov).

About the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources:

The N.C. Department of Cultural Resources (NCDCR) is the state agency with a vision to be the leader in using the state's cultural resources to build the social, cultural and economic future of North Carolina. Led by Secretary Susan Kluttz, NCDCR's mission is to enrich lives and communities by creating opportunities to experience excellence in the arts, history and libraries in North Carolina that will spark creativity, stimulate learning, preserve the state's history and promote the creative economy. NCDCR was the first state organization in the nation to include all agencies for arts and culture under one umbrella.

Through arts efforts led by the N.C. Arts Council, the N.C. Symphony and the N.C. Museum of Art, NCDCR offers the opportunity for enriching arts education for young and old alike and spurring the economic stimulus engine for our state's communities. NCDCR's Divisions of Archives and Records, Historical Resources, State Historic Sites and State History Museums preserve, document and interpret North Carolina's rich cultural heritage to offer experiences of learning and reflection. NCDCR's State Library of North Carolina is the principal library of state government and builds the capacity of all libraries in our state to develop and to offer access to educational resources through traditional and online collections including genealogy and resources for the blind and physically handicapped.

NCDCR annually serves more than 19 million people through its 27 historic sites, seven history museums, two art museums, the nation's first state-supported Symphony Orchestra, the State Library, the N.C. Arts Council and the State Archives. NCDCR champions our state's creative industry that accounts for more than 300,000 jobs and generates nearly $18.5 billion in revenues. For more information, please call (919) 807-7300 or visitwww.ncdcr.gov (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001pUXHGJS61F4CTxjmZa-C7x2yzH...).