Century of Negro Progress Exhibition

The Century of Negro Progress Exhibition was a festival from August 16 to September 2, 1963 held in McCormick Place, Chicago, U.S., in honor and celebration of the centennial anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation (1863) that freed enslaved African Americans. == History == The Century of Negro Progress Exhibition was held from August 16 to September 2, 1963, in McCormick Place, Chicago.