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Juneteenth Celebration

2024 Juneteenth Celebration

COME JOIN IN! 

 

When: June 15th, 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Where: The Big Spring in Bicentennial Park (behind the Greeneville-Greene County Public Library)

210 N. Main St., Greeneville, TN 37743 

What: Celebration To Include Singing, Food and Information Vendors, Games and Inflatables for the Kids

Sponsors: George Clem Multicultural Alliance, Town of Greeneville, Tennessee Arts Council

 

On this Juneteenth Day of Observance, we commemorate America’s dedication to the cause of freedom!

     

Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery. The holiday's name is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth," as it was on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War.[8][9]

Early celebrations date back to 1866, at first involving church-centered community gatherings in Texas. They spread across the South among newly freed African American slaves and their descendants and became more commercialized in the 1920s and 1930s, often centering on a food festival. Participants in the Great Migration brought these celebrations to the rest of the country. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, these celebrations were eclipsed by the nonviolent determination to achieve civil rights, but grew in popularity again in the 1970s with a focus on African American freedom and African-American arts. Beginning with Texas by proclamation in 1938, and by legislation in 1979, every U.S. state and the District of Columbia has formally recognized the holiday in some way.

Juneteenth is also celebrated by the Mascogos, descendants of Black Seminoles who escaped from slavery in 1852 and settled in Coahuila, Mexico.[10]

The day was recognized as a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law. Juneteenth became the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was adopted in 1983.[11]

-Wikipedia

 

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Major General Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3 formally informing Texas residents that slavery had ended.

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