Natchez Mississippi NAACP Branch's Fair Share and Economic Reciprocity Committee's and Core Collaborative Planning
Southwest Region Underground Railroad Public Information Forum
Featuring the National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program, Atlanta, Georgia
Revisiting Rivers of Freedom
Where the Overground and Underground Railroad met at Natchez Mississippi's Forks-of-the-Roads
September 23, 2000 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Co-Lin Community College's Nelson Multi-Purpose Room, Natchez, Mississippi
Program
Co-facilitators: Rev. James Lee. Adams County Coroner and Binky Vines, Adams County Circuit Clerk
 | Konvene / Welcome Seating of presiding Elders |
| Afrikan American National Anthem - Lift Every Voice Introduction / |
| Background Ser Seshshab Heter-Boxley |
| Welcoming NPS Underground Railroad Program to the Southwest (Indigenous Nation, Governors, Legislators Federal / State, Counties / Cities) |
| A song of freedom: "Oh Freedom" Ibo Nation Song Ralph Jennings |
| Barbara Tagger presents: NPS UGRR Network to Freedom Program |
| Forks-of-the-Road Resolve Ser Seshshab Heter-Boxley |
| Intermission |
| Dance of Freedom by Sankofa Dance Society, Opelousas Louisiana |
| Southwest Region presentation of stories of struggles for freedom |
| Achafalaya River Basin: Danielle Fontenette, City of St. Martinsville Multi-Cultural Museum; |
| New Maroons and Ja'nelle Chargois Radio KJCB/KFMV Lafayette presents Omar Abdul-Khaaliq African Resistance in the Opelousas / Attakapas / Point Coupee District; |
| Mtume Taa Numa of Opelousas presents Enuff is Enuff Color Resistance in Southwest Louisiana; |
| Red River Basin Arna Bontemp Museuam present Solomon Northup Trail, Monroe - Shreveport; |
| Mississippi River Basin: Hermoine Museum, Tallulah; |
| American Legion Post 590 Ferriday / Vidalia; |
| Vicksberg / Hinds; Claiborne / Jefferson; Wilkinson / Amite / Franklin; Natchez Adams counties; |
| Charles Wright on the Wright brothers; |
| Dr. Elizabeth Boggess on the Uprising at Second Creek; |
| Ralph Jennings on Fort McPherson and enslaved / non-enslaved Africans in the American Union Army; |
| Larry Davis on Pa George McClain AKA George Washington Union Army Freedom Fighter |
Displays: Runaway Ads / Enslavement Forts / Forks-of-the-Road
Follow-up: Development of an educational booklet
Formation of the Southwest Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program Coalition and Representation at NPS UGRR National Program Launching October 12, 2000 in Philadelphia
Publishing of an educational document
Another Song / Dance of Freedom by Sankofa Dance Societty, Opelousas Louisiana
Adjournment 5 p.m.