Preston Chase

Walter Perry

2020

27 November’ 2021

The Walter Perry Freedom Foundation

Bob Jackson, John Hepworth

Category Documentary

Movement Dance

About Project

Mr. Emancipation is the story of Walter L Perry’s determination to put on a celebration that would transcend divisions of race and class. He staged an Emancipation Day festival that was where everyone wanted to be. Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr, Jesse Owens all headed there because, as civil rights activist Dick Gregory said “The largest Juneteenth celebration was not in America, it was in Windsor, Canada.”

 

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