(Birmingham, AL, Jan. 3, 2013) – On Saturday, January 5, 2013, the Metro Birmingham Branch NAACP will commemorate the 150th Commemoration of the Emancipation Proclamation at Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church – 2135 Jefferson Avenue SW 35211 – at 3:00 p.m.
President Abraham Lincoln’s famous executive order on January 1, 1863, is widely acclaimed as the beginning of the principled freeing of African American slaves.
The program’s featured speaker is Attorney W.L. Williams, Jr., a pioneering Civil Rights Litigator during the 1963 Civil Rights Movement.
Immediately following the program, the NAACP will host a book signing of “The Gentle Giant of Dynamite Hill,” a book about the life and times of Attorney Arthur Shores by his daughters, Judge Helen Shore Lee and Barbara Shores.
Read more of Vickii’s thoughts on the 150th year anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and its parallel to the 50th Anniversary of the 1963 Movement in Birmingham at Birmingham View Blogs.
