{"id":15962,"date":"2013-08-05T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2013-08-05T08:01:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:01:53","slug":"clarksville-community-black-history-council-to-celebrate-emancipation-august-8th-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2013\/08\/05\/clarksville-community-black-history-council-to-celebrate-emancipation-august-8th-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarksville Community Black History Council to celebrate Emancipation August 8th-10th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-187148\" title=\"Emancipation Proclamation\" alt=\"Emancipation Proclamation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Emancipation2.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"165\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Starting August 8th through August 10th there will be a series of events to celebrate Emancipation sponsored by the Clarksville Community Black History Council<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, August 8th, there will be a Spiritual Convocation at Greater Missionary Baptist Church beginning at 7:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSixteen pastors have been selected across racial, cultural and church denominational lines will discuss four areas connected to the emancipation: bondage, slavery, freedom and unity,\u201d said Pastor Jerry Jerkins.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Emancipation1.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-187151\" title=\"Abraham Lincoln statement on slavery.\" alt=\"Abraham Lincoln statement on slavery.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Emancipation1-480x300.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->There will be special music provided by a 100 plus black men chorus.<\/p>\n<p>At 7:00pm Friday, August 9th,<\/p>\n<p>Youth and the Emancipation will be presented at First Missionary Baptist Church\u2019s Emmanuel Life Center on Friday, August 9th starting at 7:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA group of young people has been selected to lead a hot topic discussion,\u201d stated Jerkins. The event will include music, dance and historic narrations. Parents, children and seniors are encouraged to attend.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, August 10th, there will be a Celebration Festival at Edith Pettus Park from 10:00am til 6:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>There will be food, entertainment, softball games, kids\u2019s rides and vendors.<\/p>\n<p>All events are free.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call Pastor Jerry Jerkins at 932.220.1522.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; Starting August 8th through August 10th there will be a series of events to celebrate Emancipation sponsored by the Clarksville Community Black History Council On Thursday, August 8th, there will be a Spiritual Convocation at Greater Missionary Baptist Church beginning at 7:00pm. \u201cSixteen pastors have been selected across racial, cultural and church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[20185,825,19030,18258,12473,20187,7715,3948,39,4546,13723,20186,3798],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-49s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15963,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions\/15963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}