A Juneteenth Celebration will be held this Wednesday, June 19, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Carousel Museum. The event is free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required on the museum’s event webpage. Click here.
This the second annual Juneteenth Celebration at the Carousel Museum. It is sponsored by the museum, the local branch of the NAACP, Bristol Art and Culture Commission, Primo Press and Cafe Real.
Among the vendors will be Cafe Real, ADOM Supermarket and Thet’s Handbags.
Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and U.S. General Gordon Granger stood on Texas soil and read General Orders No. 3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”
This occurred two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, and over two months after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S Grant at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
The Juneteenth, or Juneteenth National Independence Day, became an official federal holiday on June 17, 2021, and it not only honors African American freedom and achievements, it encourages self-development and respect for all cultures.
For more information, visit the museum’s website, here, or contact emazzone@thecarouselmusuem.org.
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