Metadata Content type Content type Image Collection(s) Collection(s) Encyclopedia Virginia Title Title Title Colored People's Celebration at Richmond, Va. Resource Type Resource Type Image Description Description Seeking to establish a self-defined National Thanksgiving Day for Freedom, African Americans sponsored a three-day Colored Peoples Celebration, held in Richmond, in October 1890. Local Identifier Local Identifier evr10619 Persons Persons Unknown: Creator (cre) Genre Genre Manuscripts/Texts Broadside Subject Subject Emancipation Day emancipation Richmond Note Note Note Type date/sequential designation Note 1890 Note Type creation/production credits Note Library of Virginia URL URL http://www.virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/exhibits/show/remaking-virgini… Restriction on Access Restriction on Access Open