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A wagon tour at Old Cahawba will give a presentation of the historic area’s African-American population and their efforts for freedom before the voting rights movement many years later. “Road to Freedom Wagon Tour” will focus on a group of African-Americans who were formerly slaves and how they gathered at the courthouse in Cahawba. The […]

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 […]