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. -----Original Message----- >From: Hollis Gentry <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Jan 23, 2007 5:10 PM >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: [VA-HIST] Emancipation Celebraton in Norfolk on January 1st > >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 >[log in to unmask] > >To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions >at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html Lillian Jane Steele To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html