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1882 - John Robinson organizes the Afro-American Protective Emancipation League for the purpose of celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation. Each year he uses his prestige with merchants and friends to help organize a parade through the city. The procession ends at a park where he delivers a speech while dressed in a Prince Albert (husband of Queen Victoria) costume.