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Josephine Jones speaks at the 2012 Emancipation Association ceremony.
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this year, discovered that
she had the option of
being sworn-in in her dis
trict while attending an
orientation for new legis
lators earlier this month.
Traditionally, new mem
bers take the oath during
a mass ceremony at the
General
Assembly on the
first day of the
legislative ses
sion, which is
Jan. 8. Taking the
oath locally will
eliminate the
headache of trav
el and finding
parking near the
General
Assembly, Terry
said, and give her
the chance to
enjoy the
moment with
those who voted
for her to serve.
"It's some
what humbling to
be perfectly hon
est, " she said.
"The reality of
the significance
to be able to do it
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Emancipation
Association is giving
scholarships to young
people who are so deserv
ing of a higher education
and thanking God and
reading that proclamation
that provided a document
for liberating us out of
slavery, I can't tell you
how important that is to
?me.
She'll be sworn in by
Judge Denise Hartsficld,
one of Terry's fellow
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Many elected officials
bring greetings during the
Emancipation
Assosication service.
Speakers at next week's
service will include
Mayor Allen Joines and
State Sen.-elect Earline
Parmon. Bethlehem
Pastor Dwight Hash will
deliver the keynote
address. Emancipation
Association President
Josephine Jones is proud
that the annual service
has received such a great
deal of support over the
decades and that she and
the other dedicated mem
bers of the Association
have been able to educate
the local community
about the importance of
the document.
"(The service is for
the public) to understand
and to learn more about
I
what the Proclamation is
all about," she said.
Because of its 150th
birthday, the
Emancipation
Proclamation is getting
more attention than usual
and that is how it should
be, according to Cheryl
Harry, director of African
American programming
at Old Salem Museums
and Gardens.
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hopes that
churches will
take time to
acknowledge
the
Proclamation
during their
Watch Night
services on
New Year's
Eve by read
ing the docu
ment, hand
ing out copies
of it and the
13th
Amendment
(which insert
ed a ban of
slavery into
the
Constitution)
or by simply
mentioning
its impor
tance and connection to
Watch Night services.
Harry says few know that
Watch Night services
became popular in black
churches after New Year's
Eve 1862 - what became
known as Freedom's Eve
- as slaves gathered in
churches around the
country, waiting for their
fteedom on Jan. 1, 1863.
Old Salem is sponsor
ing a bus trip in May to
the N.C. Museum of
History, which will be
displaying a 1862 prelim
inary copy of the
Emancipation
Proclamation from May
15 - June 15. The docu
ment is currently hanging
on the Oval Office of the
White House.
Emancipation
Proclamation commemo
rations will continue into
the new year. Local
Juneteenth 2013 activities
will focus heavily on the
150th anniversary and in
October 2013, the state's
Civil War ,
Sesquicentcnnial
Committee will hold a
symposium .at Wake
Forest University focus
ing on emancipation enti
tled, "Lay My Burden
Down: Freedom and
Legacies of the Civil
War." Old Salem, Wake
Forest, Winston-Salem
State University and the
N.C. Office of Archives
and History will sponsor
the event. States who lost
residents in the Civil War
have set-UD sesauicenten
nial committees to host a j
series of events that will |
culminate in 2015 - the <
150th anniversary of the ;
end of the war. I
"It was a turning point ,
in history," Harry said of ;
the Emancipation
Proclamation. "The fight (
to save the Union, to keep (
the Union together, |
became the fight to end t
slavery. It was a really
pivotal point in our histo
ry."
For information about
the N.C. Civil War
Sesquicentennial
Committee, go to
www.nccivilwarlSOxom.
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African Americans in
North Carolina turned out
at the polls last month at a
higher rate than white
North Carolinians, accord
ing to an analysis released
last week by the nonparti
san voting rights organiza
tion Democracy North
Carolina.
Black registered voters
turned out at a 70.2 per
cent rate, exceeding the
rates of 68.6 percent for
whites and 54.3 percent
for Latinos. This was the
second-straight presiden
tial election that die rate of
black North Carolinians
was higher than that of
whites. The same was true
in 2008, when President
Barack Obama became the
first Democrat in decades
to win the Tarheel State.
This year, though, the
president won reelection
without winning North
Carolina, after Republican
Mitt Romney received
92,004 more votes.
So how did North
Carolina become the only
swing state that President
Obama lost? The analysis
offers answers.
There were 4.5 million
ballots cast in North
Carolina and registered
Republicans showed up at
higher rates and in larger
lumbers than in 2008.
State Board of Elections
figures show that the num
ber of Democrats who
iroted actually declined by
53,000 from 2008, even
hough nearly 200,000
noie voters cast ballots in
2012 than in 2008.
When the state's 6.6
nillion registered voters
ue divided into groups by
ace, gender and party
iffiliation, the segment
with the best performance
was African-American
female Democrats - the
same group that posted the
best turnout rate in 2008,
when Democrats voted at
a slightly higher rate than
Republicans.
Overall, 68.3 percent
of registered voters cast
ballots in 2012 in North
Carolina, down from the
modem turnout record of
69.6 percent set in the
2008 presidential contest.
President Obama's
name on the ballot is what
appears to have driven
many blacks to the polls.
Bob Hall of Democracy
North Carolina pointed
out that in 2010, a non
presidential election year,
when only 44 percent of
registered voters cast a
ballot, registered whites
outperformed blacks by a
46 percent to 41 percent
margin and turnout among
white Democrats also
trailed white Republicans
by five percentage points
that year. The 2010 elec
tion was also one of the
rare cases when men out
performed women. In
2012 and 2008, registered
women voted at higher
rates than men (70 percent
versus 67 precent in 2012)
and because women also
register to vote at higher
rates, their numbers heavi
ly influence election out
comes, nail said, inzui i,
the gap between the num
ber of female and male
voters exceeded 490,000
out of 4.S million voters
casting ballots
Hall said the lowest
turnout rates were among
young voters (age 18 to
25) and those who don't
choose a party affiliation,
reflecting the overall divi
sion between voters with
strong convictions and
those with less connection
to the political process.
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