The 157th Commemoration Celebration for the Emancipation Proclamation will take place on January 1 hosted by the Selma-Dallas Emancipation Proclamation Committee.
The event commemorates the historic proclamation, which went into effect in 1863 to change the status of those who were slaves to freed people.
The theme for the 2020 celebration will be “The African American and the Vote”. The speaker will be Dallas County Probate Judge Jimmy Nunn.
The celebration will take place at New Morning Star Baptist Church located on 30 Co. Rd. 29 in Marion Junction.
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