Media Contact
Tara Fikes, Director
Human Relations Commission
Phone: 919.245.2487
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ORANGE COUNTY TO HOST COMMUNITY READ:
150TH ANNIVERSARY EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
ORANGE COUNTY, NC (October 8, 2012)—The Orange County Human Relations Commission is hosting a Community READ and inviting book clubs and reading groups in Orange County to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
The famous Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, and the history and results of that act have been discussed and debated ever since.
The community can participate by reading The Emancipation Proclamation: An Act of Justice by John Hope Franklin. This narrative is an historical account of the events that led to the drafting and proclamation of the Emancipation of American slaves. Franklin was a distinguished historian and a long time professor at Duke University whose work is internationally acclaimed.
The Orange County, Chapel Hill and Carrboro Libraries will order additional copies of this book in hopes that book clubs and all citizens of Orange County will read it in preparation for a community-wide discussion in March 2013, led by Dr. Reginald Hildebrand of the University of North Carolina History Department.
Additionally, the Anniversary Planning Committee has prepared an annotated bibliography of other recommended books on the subject. The panel is requesting for book clubs to let the Human Relations Commission know if their group has added the book to its reading list.
For more information about the Community READ, please contact the Human Relations Commission at 919.245.2487.
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Regards,
Carla Banks
Director of Public Affairs
Orange County Government
200 S. Cameron Street
Hillsborough, NC 27278
Office: 919.245.2302
Mobile: 919.475.6650
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