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Cotton Club Museum leads Gainesville’s Emancipation Day events on May 20

The Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center will anchor Gainesville’s sixth annual “Journey to Juneteenth” series with an Emancipation Day commemoration on May 20, running from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The day marks the 1865 reading of the Emancipation Proclamation by General McCook in Florida, and will open with a heritage march from Depot Park to the museum accompanied by freedom songs. Activities throughout the day will include choir and drum performances, spoken word, children’s programming, food vendors, and a flower-laying ceremony honoring formerly enslaved Union Army soldiers.

Sources: The Gainesville Iguana