'State of the Black Union' draws thousands to Va.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

HAMPTON, Va. -- Beneath an oak tree on the campus of what is now Hampton University, historians say, Virginia blacks heard a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation and began to dream of a better life.

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