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‘Today, we celebrate’
Liberty holds Emancipation Proclamation Service
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Doris L Barrett, First African Missionary Baptist Church, Riceboro, received the Emancipation’s Willie J. McIver Humanitarian award from the Rev. Dr. Hermon Scott. More photos on page 2B.
Emancipated: What’s Next? was the theme for the 2020 Liberty County Emancipation Proclamation Observance Day service. These three thought-provoking words reminded the attendees that it didn’t stop with the signing and subsequent implementation of the Emancipation on January 1, 1863.