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Posted: 9/21/2012 1:28:38 PM EST
Christen Williams does an interpretative dance at an event sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Howard University to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Posted: 9/21/2012 1:28:38 PM EST
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, left, greets Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., after at an event sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Howard University to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Posted: 9/21/2012 1:28:38 PM EST
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., center right, speaks about freedom at an event sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Howard University to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Posted: 6/26/2012 6:28:25 PM EST
This undated photo provided by Seth Kaller, Inc., shows a detail from the rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which sold Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at a New York auction for more than $2 million. It's the second-highest price ever paid for a Lincoln-signed proclamation - after one owned by the late Sen. Robert Kennedy that went for $3.8 million two years ago. (AP Photo/Seth Kaller, Inc.)
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Posted: 6/26/2012 6:28:25 PM EST
This undated photo provided by Seth Kaller, Inc., shows a rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which sold Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at a New York auction for more than $2 million. It's the second-highest price ever paid for a Lincoln-signed proclamation - after one owned by the late Sen. Robert Kennedy that went for $3.8 million two years ago. (AP Photo/Seth Kaller, Inc.)
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Posted: 5/11/2012 2:20:47 AM EST
Gay rights pioneer Lilli Vincenz, 74, right, and her life partner Nancy Ruth Davis, 75, pose in their home in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 10, 2012. At the birthplace of the gay rights movement, patrons at New York City's Stonewall Inn said they felt like they were living history. In Wyoming, the mother of a gay man beaten to death said words couldn't express her gratitude. The president's declaration that he supports gay marriage may have lacked the urgency of Kennedy's push for the Civil Rights Act, or the force and finality of the Emancipation Proclamation, but in places key to the history of gay rights, it's being greeted as a major milestone. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Posted: 5/11/2012 2:20:47 AM EST
Gay rights pioneer Lilli Vincenz, 74, right, and her life partner Nancy Ruth Davis, 75, pose intheir home in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 10, 2012. At the birthplace of the gay rights movement, patrons at New York City's Stonewall Inn said they felt like they were living history. In Wyoming, the mother of a gay man beaten to death said words couldn't express her gratitude. The president's declaration that he supports gay marriage may have lacked the urgency of Kennedy's push for the Civil Rights Act, or the force and finality of the Emancipation Proclamation, but in places key to the history of gay rights, it's being greeted as a major milestone. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Posted: 5/11/2012 2:20:47 AM EST
Amelia Jane Carson, left, and Karen Kleeman listen to instructions from an official at the marriage bureau in the city clerk's office in New York, Thursday, May 10, 2012. Carson and Kleeman, who live in Santa Fe, N.M. and have been together 28 years, traveled to New York for the express purpose of getting married. President Barack Obama's declaration that he supports gay marriage may have lacked the urgency of Kennedy's push for the Civil Rights Act, or the force and finality of the Emancipation Proclamation, but in places key to the history of gay rights, it's being greeted as a major milestone. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Posted: 5/11/2012 2:20:47 AM EST
Whitney Holt, left, talks with her pregnant partner, Brittany Richardson, just before getting married at the city clerk's office in New York, Thursday, May 10, 2012. Richardson and Holt, from Johnson City, Tenn. traveled to New York for the specifically to get married. President Barack Obama's declaration that he supports gay marriage may have lacked the urgency of Kennedy's push for the Civil Rights Act, or the force and finality of the Emancipation Proclamation, but in places key to the history of gay rights, it's being greeted as a major milestone. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Posted: 5/11/2012 2:20:46 AM EST
Karen Kleeman, second from left, hugs Maryanne Schumm, left, while Amelia Jane Carson, second from right, hugs Betty Koster, after Kleeman and Carson were married at the marriage bureau in the city clerk's office in New York, Thursday, May 10, 2012. Carson and Kleeman, who live in Santa Fe, N.M. and have been together 28 years, traveled to New York for the express purpose of getting married. President Barack Obama's declaration that he supports gay marriage may have lacked the urgency of Kennedy's push for the Civil Rights Act, or the force and finality of the Emancipation Proclamation, but in places key to the history of gay rights, it's being greeted as a major milestone. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Posted: 5/11/2012 2:20:46 AM EST
FILE--In this Nov. 18, 1998, file photo, Stacy Jolles, left, and Nina Beck, a lesbian couple who are challenging Vermont's marriage laws, watch arguments at the Vermont Supreme Court in Montpelier, Vt. President Barack Obama's declaration that he supports gay marriage may have lacked the urgency of Kennedy's push for the Civil Rights Act, or the force and finality of the Emancipation Proclamation, but in places key to the history of gay rights, it's being greeted as a major milestone. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
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Posted: 5/11/2012 2:20:46 AM EST
Stacy Jolles, left, and Nina Beck sit in front of the tea room on Thursday, May 10, 2012 in Burlington, Vt. The couple were part of the first lawsuit that brought civil unions to Vermont. President Barack Obama's declaration that he supports gay marriage may have lacked the urgency of Kennedy's push for the Civil Rights Act, or the force and finality of the Emancipation Proclamation, but in places key to the history of gay rights, it's being greeted as a major milestone. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
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Posted: 5/11/2012 2:20:46 AM EST
Kay Tobin Lahusen, 82, an early photographer of the gay rights movement, poses for a photograph with a portrait of her late partner Barbara Gittings, Thursday, May 10, 2012, in Kennett Square, Pa. President Barack Obama's declaration that he supports gay marriage may have lacked the urgency of Kennedy's push for the Civil Rights Act, or the force and finality of the Emancipation Proclamation, but in places key to the history of gay rights, it's being greeted as a major milestone. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Posted: 5/11/2012 2:20:46 AM EST
Kay Lahusen, 82, an early photographer of the gay rights movement, poses for a photograph Thursday, May 10, 2012, in Kennett Square, Pa. President Barack Obama's declaration that he supports gay marriage may have lacked the urgency of Kennedy's push for the Civil Rights Act, or the force and finality of the Emancipation Proclamation, but in places key to the history of gay rights, it's being greeted as a major milestone. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Posted: 5/11/2012 2:20:46 AM EST
In this photo from the mid 1960's provided by Kay Tobin Lahusen, Barbara Gittings and others demonstrates for gay rights in Philadelphia. President Barack Obama's declaration that he supports gay marriage may have lacked the urgency of Kennedy's push for the Civil Rights Act, or the force and finality of the Emancipation Proclamation, but in places key to the history of gay rights, it's being greeted as a major milestone. (AP Photo/Kay Tobin Lahusen)
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Posted: 5/11/2012 2:20:46 AM EST
FILE - In this July 4, 1967 file photo Kay Tobin Lahusen, right, and other demonstrators carry signs calling for protection of homosexuals from discrimination as they march in a picket line in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. President Barack Obama's declaration that he supports gay marriage may have lacked the urgency of Kennedy's push for the Civil Rights Act, or the force and finality of the Emancipation Proclamation, but in places key to the history of gay rights, it's being greeted as a major milestone. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 5/11/2012 2:20:46 AM EST
Gay rights pioneer Lilli Vincenz, 74, poses in her home in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 10, 2012. At the birthplace of the gay rights movement, patrons at New York City's Stonewall Inn said they felt like they were living history. In Wyoming, the mother of a gay man beaten to death said words couldn't express her gratitude. The president's declaration that he supports gay marriage may have lacked the urgency of Kennedy's push for the Civil Rights Act, or the force and finality of the Emancipation Proclamation, but in places key to the history of gay rights, it's being greeted as a major milestone. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Posted: 5/11/2012 2:20:45 AM EST
This black-and-white photo, taken in 1965, provided by Lilli Vincenz, shows Vincenz, left, picketing at the Civil Service Commission in Washington. President Barack Obama's declaration that he supports gay marriage may have lacked the urgency of Kennedy's push for the Civil Rights Act, or the force and finality of the Emancipation Proclamation, but in places key to the history of gay rights, it's being greeted as a major milestone. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 5/1/2012 3:44:02 PM EST
Leaders of COB "Bolivian Union Workers" head a march during May Day celebrations in La Paz, May 1, 2012. President Evo Morales announced on May Day that Bolivia is nationalizing the local unit TDE of Spain's Red Electrica, citing the company's lack of investment in the country as the reason. The banner reads, "The emancipation of the workers depends on themselves." REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)
