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1998 Fourth Annual Forks-of-the-Roads Commemoration and Libation Program participants symbolically re-enacting the Freedom Summer of 1863 Runaway Enslaved Ancestors from Mount Locust Historic Plantation Inn on the Natchez Trace Parkway, as well as run away from other plantation in the general area. In the summer of 1863 they ran away to got behind the Union Army lines to be free. The car caravan was led by a tractor which was a stand-in for wagons and horses/mules many runaway enslaved Ancestors appropriated in order to got to the Forks-of-the-Roads behind Union Army lines in the Summer of 1863 to be Free.

Dancers from Lafayette Louisiana performing at the 2000 Sixth Annual Forks-of-the-Roads Commemoration and Libation Program Commemorating Freedom Summer of 1863 Africans in America, in Mississippi/Louisiana, Self-Emancipators/Liberators.

Sixth Annual Forks participants Andrew Robinson, Clarence Randle, Jr. and Charles Wright, 3rd cousin of world famous author Richard Wright, are about to erect an Egyptian Aungh in honor of the 58th U. S. Colored Infantry Regiment who was encamped at the Forks-of-the-Roads during the Union Army occupation of Natchez during the Un-Civil War.

Clarence Randle, Jr. pointing to Aungh that have names of some of the African Decent Freedom Fighters encamped at the Forks. Four months later this aungh and another one placed on the bluffs above the Mississippi River where the Union Army's Fort McPherson was located mysteriously disappeared.