Hollis: This is very exciting.  Several African-American chuches in Winston-Salem,NC celebrate Emancipation Day each year on January 1st.  If you wish to read about this years' celebration please goggle the Winston-Salem Chronicle, an African-American-American paper located in Winston-Salem,NC.  The editor is Ernie Pitt. Jane Steele.

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>From: Hollis Gentry <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: [VA-HIST] Emancipation Celebraton in Norfolk on January 1st
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>Norfolk freedmen initially celebrated Emancipation Day
>on January 1, 1863.  I discovered an article on the
>history of the celebration in the February 26, 1926
>issue of the Norfolk Journal and Guide.  I chanced
>upon it as one of my relatives was a member of the
>planning committee and another served as a marshall in
>later emancipation parades.  
>
>The article goes on to provide details of the history
>of the event, noting that preparations for the
>celebration began not long after September 23, 1862,
>when news of Lincoln's proclamation appeared in a
>local newspaper.
>
>Apparently, notes and minutes of the planning meeting
>survived until 1926, when those papers were sent to
>the newspaper, hence the publication of the article.
>
>
>Hollis L. Gentry
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