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March 14, 2013

Black History program slated

Staff Reports The Moultrie Observer The Moultrie Observer Thu Mar 14, 2013, 08:16 PM EDT

MOULTRIE — Williams Tabernacle C.M.E. Church will celebrate its 10th Annual Sarah Everett Daniels’ Black History Program on Sunday, March 17, at 3 p.m., with the Rev. William Todd Cason delivering the Black History address.

The Live Oak Youth in Action for the Lord (L.O.Y.A.L.) will do worship through dance and Michael Calhoun and Robert Walker will render the music.

The celebration is in memory of Sarah Everett Daniels, who was the first in the community to undertake the challenging task of celebrating black history in the community. Dr. Carter G. Woodson was the first African-American to see the need for creating black history month; making others finally recognize that black heritage should be celebrated alongside other historical traditions.

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History dedicates the 2013 Annual Black History Theme, “At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington,” celebrating two important turning points in the lives of African-Americans.

The year 2013 marks two important anniversaries in the history of African-Americans and the United States.

On Jan. 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation set the United States on the path of ending slavery.

A wartime measure issued by President Abraham Lincoln, the proclamation freed relatively few slaves, but it fueled the fire of the enslaved to strike for their freedom.

In many respects, Lincoln’s declaration simply acknowledged the epidemic of black self-emancipation spread by black freedom crusaders like Harriet Tubman that already had commenced beyond his control.

Those in bondage increasingly streamed into the camps of the Union army, reclaiming and asserting self-determination.

The result, abolitionist Fredrick Douglass predicted, was that the war for the Union became a war against slavery. The actions of both Lincoln and the slaves made clear the Civil War was in deed, as well as in theory, a struggle between the forces of slavery and emancipation.

The full-scale dismantlement of the “peculiar institution” of the human bondage had begun.

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