Rev. A. Lincoln James Jr. talks with Dr. Lester Frye during the Emancipation Day Service at Sharon Baptist Church. Dr. Frye is president of the Baptist Ministers’ Conference of Richmond and Vicinity, which sponsors the annual event.
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From liberated to liberators
‘March forward in God’s name,’ Rev. A. Lincoln James Jr. proclaims on Emancipation Day
“March forward,” the Rev. A. Lincoln James Jr. told about 125 people at the New Year’s Day program celebrating the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation, the great Civil War document that took the first big step toward abolishing slavery in this country.
