Sixth Annual Forks-of-the Road Ancestral Kommemoration / Libation Ceremony (Formerly part of Natchez Juneteenth
Kommemorating: Freedom Summer of 1863 Africans in America, Mississippi / Louisiana, Self-Emancipators / Liberators
Memorial automobile caravan to the bluffs overlooking the Summer of 1863 Freedom Kontraband Kamps / "Black" Union Army barracks, and onward to the National Cemetery.
September 23, 2000 8:00 a.m.
8 a.m. St. Catherine St and Liberty Road
Natchez Mississippi's site of Washington D.C. / Alexandria Virginia based Franklin, Armfield and Company's instigated enslavement selling market.
Program
Assemble O'Ferrall's Alley
Welcome Kush District Citizens Dr. Demetri Marshall
Opening Remarks Ser Seshshab Heter-Boxley
Invocation (spiritual calling) Sankofa Dance Society
Libation Statements Participants
Libation Offering Ausar Auset Society Members
Wreath / Aunk Offering
Assemble Caravan Procession
Proceed to Mississippi River Bluff Site of Fort McPherson and Assemble on Bluff
Overstanding Significance of Enslaved Fore parents / Ancestors' Strategy for Gaining Freedom by Running Away from Slavery Yesterday and Becoming Self-Liberating / Emancipating Freedom Fighters the Next Day ... Ralph Jennings
Tribute / Salute to New African Freedom Fighters Along the Southwest Rivers of Freedom ... 1st U.S. Mississippi Colored Infantry Regiment - Black Reenactors - New Afrikan Scouts - New Maroons
Wreath / Aunk Offering
(Return to Vehicles and Proceed o Natchez National Cemetery)
Assemble in Section D
Paying Our Proper Respect and Asantes (thanks) to Our New Afrikan Freedom from Slavery Self-Liberators / Emancipators
Making a Resting Place One Hundred and Thirty-four Years Ago ... Mr. Clarence Randall, Jr., American Legion Post 590 / 30th of May Organizer Vidalia, Louisiana
Our Shining New Afrikan Freedom Fighters ... Sergeant Norman Fisher,
Sermon: Self-Liberation / Emancipation from Slavery to Reparations ... Reverend Basiri White of Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church and Southwest Region ENCOBA Representative, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Wreath Offering
First Annual Salute / Tribute to the Un-Civil War New Afrikan Freedom Fighters Interred in Natchez National Cemetery ... 1st U.S. Mississippi Colored Infantry Regiment - Black Reenactors - New Afrika Scouts - New Maroons
Recession:
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Complimentary Reception Cook-out Lunch and Tour Mostly African Market, New Art Show: From the Natchez Diaspora, 125 St. Catherine Street (near Forks-of-the-Road) |
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Promptly Proceed to National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program Public Forum at Co-Lin Community College, Nelson Multi-Purpose Room in the Redd Watkins Vo-Tech Building |
(Take highway 61 South turn right on Colonel John Pitchford Parkway, turn left on Campus Drive. The Redd Watkins Vo-Tech Building is straight ahead on the right, the first parking lot on the right - not up the hill)
Acknowledgements: 1st U.S. Mississippi Colored Infantry Regiment - Black Reenactors - New Orleans/ Baton Rouge Ausar Auset - Reverend Basiri White - New Afrika Scouts - New Maroons - Sankofa Dance Society - Mostly African Market Place - Natchez Visitors and Convention Center - Torrey Dukes WebPages - Frederick Douglas Civic and Improvement League - Natchez Police - Andrew Robinson - Charles Sanders and Crew - Historic Natchez Foundation