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Memphis will be host to a series of festivals and events marking Juneteenth.Juneteenth honors Black ancestry and the events of June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were ...
The Juneteenth Shop Black Festival is back for the fourth year on June 15. The festival will have over 100 Black-owned businesses, food trucks, food vendors and live music.
The remains of Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest will be removed from a Memphis park ahead of a Juneteenth celebration. The Sons of Confederate Veterans have hired workers to dig up ...
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
Juneteenth only became a federal holiday in 2021. Its flag represents new beginnings and freedom for enslaved Americans.
Douglass is a community on the north side of Memphis, Tennessee. Douglass was named after Frederick Douglass, who was admired by William Rush-Plummer, the one-time owner of the land (approximately 40 acres (0.16 km 2)) where the Douglass neighborhood currently stands. Douglass was the first community in north Memphis.
Opal Lee (born October 7, 1926) is an American retired teacher, counselor, and activist in the movement to make Juneteenth a federally-recognized holiday. She is often described as the "grandmother of Juneteenth". [2] On June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed Senate Bill S. 475, making Juneteenth the eleventh federal holiday. [3]
Americans across the country this weekend celebrated Juneteenth, marking the relatively new national holiday with cookouts, parades and other gatherings as they commemorated the end of slavery ...