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Lois Richardson rises in celebration during the eighth annual Jubilee Day ceremony Monday at Metropolitan Memorial Baptist Church in Ypsilanti. The day commemorates the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

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Ann Arbor News, January 2, 1996

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Lois Allen-Richardson

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