Three days of activities were planned at the Noble “Thin Man” Watts Amphitheater, 322 S. Clara Ave. in DeLand, to educate and celebrate Emancipation Day, May 20, 1865, the day Florida officially recognized the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing African American enslaved people. 

The African American Museum of the Arts and Everybody Is Somebody, Inc. hosted.

Photos by Eli Witek

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