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Celia’s Pardon Story by PBS Nine Historian, Jim Kircherr, won a Mid-America Emmy on October 25, 2025!
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Celia, an Enslaved MO Woman, Posthumously Pardoned (Update) | Living St. Louis
Nine PBS - February 25, 2025
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Celia’s Story: Missouri teen vindicated 175 years later; pardoned for slave owner’s murder thanks to family’s fight for justice
First Alert - February 14, 2025
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St. Louis woman celebrates ancestral slave’s official pardon, nearly 170 years later
Missouri Net - January 22, 2025
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Executed for Killing Her Slave Master in 1855, Her Descendants Fought to Have Her Pardoned
KSDK - January 2, 2025
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Fulton Slave Pardoned 169 Years After Execution
Fulton Sun - December 24, 2024
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Family Members Honor Celia Newsom on 169th Anniversary of Execution One Day After Gov. Parson’s Posthumous Pardon
ABC 17 News - December 21, 2024
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The Legacy of Celia, an Enslaved Woman Convicted of Murdering Her Abuser | Living St. Louis
Nine PBS - May 27, 2024
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