W.C.杨 (W.C. Young) 社区中心
地方性遗产

您可能听过凯萨查维斯(Cesar Chavez：美国的传奇人物之一)，他是一位着名的劳工领袖，努力为他的农场工人同侪争取权利。但您听过W.C.杨吗?

就像查维斯一样，杨也以正直、寛容及非暴力的行动，针对贫穷及不公平议题争取改善。1976年时，杨建办了一个社区中心：帕迪尤卡社区中心，用来帮助肯塔基州的帕迪尤卡居民克服贫穷及获取像样的住宅。20年后的1996年，它重新被命名为W.C.杨社区中心，藉以纪念它的创办人。

W.C.杨社区中心是年度八月八日解放庆典的发源地，这是一个用来庆祝内战过后，肯塔基州西南部的奴隶重获自由的节日。活动内容包括了一个追悼仪式、一场游行及一场野餐大会。每个州都拥有自已的解放日，通常是依联邦军抵达并施行亚伯拉罕林肯的解放宣言而定，在这篇宣言中，林肯主张所有的奴隶应重获自由。

You probably have heard of Cesar Chavez (an "Amazing American"), a famous labor leader who fought for rights for his fellow farm workers. But have you ever heard of W.C. Young?

Like Chavez, Young worked on issues of poverty and injustice with honesty, understanding and nonviolent actions. He started a community center in 1976, the Paducah Community Center, to help the people of Paducah, Kentucky, overcome poverty and obtain decent housing. Twenty years later, in 1996, it was renamed the W.C. Young Community Center to honor its founder.

The W.C. Young Community Center is the home of the annual Eighth of August Emancipation Celebration, an event that honors the slaves who were emancipated (set free) in southwestern Kentucky after the Civil War. Activities include a memorial service, a parade, and a picnic. Different states celebrate Emancipation Day on different days, often depending on when the Union Army arrived to enforce Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, in which he stated that all slaves should be free.

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