The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-01
EMANC|PAT|ONDAY
 CELEBRATION WILL
 BE A BIG EVENT
Colored People Plan Great Joint Meeting at Shiloh Baptist Church Today
 at 2 O'Clock

The biggest celebration ever witnessed by colored people on Emancipation Day will take place at the Shiloh Baptist church today at o'clock, when Dr. J. B. F. Shaw of the Central Alabama college, will deliver the oration of the day. This meeting will take the form of patriotic occasion, celebrating what America has done in the war and what the American negro has gained since coming on American soil. pr. ]. H. Phil lips has issued bulletin closing the schools at 12 o'clock today. and the children will be led to the Shiloh Baptist church by their several principals. Old time melodies. led by Dr. J. C. Olden of the Congregational church, will be sung The city commissioners have been in vited and they will appear in a body. All colored businesses will close at F o'clock and proceed to the Shiloh Bap- tist church, where the exercises will be held
 At a meeting at St Johns A NJ F. church last night it was agreed tha, there would be no celebration there, but that they would participate in the Shi- loh meeting, and all of the colored peo- pie are urged to attend this meeting.
 Tbere will be no parade of any mill tdTy unllS or C1NlnanS. Fms IS the plan of all the organizations, churches and concerns, and what was agreed upon in their several conferences Special seats will be given to returned soldiers and they will take position in the church just ahead of the High school children. The Industrial High school and the Tug gle Institute bands will furnish music. Frank P. Glass, exGovernor Emmet ONeal. Dr. Frank Willis Barnett and rrO eot yxbi ita eft will be present on this occasion. The Elks will turn out in a body All war organi- zations will be represented and the meet ing with America" The programme as Driver. Orlean D. Kennedy will direct the music of the Industrial High school and pr. J. C. Olden will open the meet ing with America. The programme as arranged by the joint committee is
 America, led by pr. J. c. Olden; invo- cation, Dr. w. L. Boyd; negro anthem, by the joint schools, led by Annie Baker. reading of the proclamation, by Annie Jackson; solo, Lillian B. Harris; Red Cross and it's work, by Mary E. Sigman: unity, by Dr. E. w. Williams: councl. of defense by Mrs. H. c. Davenport; solo, by c. Mae Frierson; the four-min- ute organization and it's part in winning the war, by Oscar ". Adams; solo, by J. K. Moore; introduction of the speaker of the evening, by Prof. w S. Davis: the Star-Spangled Banner led by Dr. J. c. Olden; the present and future prob lens of the Birmingham district, by Dr. J. H. Kelley. the work of the four-min- ute women, by Mrs. A. w. Harney; war activities among men, by Dr c. J. i Baker; true value of labor, by Dr. w A. Tut; music by the Williams singers; the gallantry of the colored soldiers by J. c. Cunningham; solo, by Mrs. Julia Kennedy Wilkerson.
 The programme committee instructs that all speakers will use four minutes White friends will be called upon for short addresses It is thoroughly under stood that there will be no parade or unusual street demonstration at this time White businesses are asked to spare their colored help for a couple of hours for this occasion All colored businesses are urgently requested to close sharply at 12 o'clock