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ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19TH WE ARE CELEBRATING OUR 4TH ANNUAL COMMEMORATION OF JUNETEENTH HERE IN PROVINCETOWN.JOIN US, A GRAND COALITION OF BLACK/AFRICAN AMERICANS, JAMAICAN/JAMAICAN-AMERICANS, INDIGENOUS PERSONS, PEOPLE OF COLOR, YOUNG LEADERS FROM THE PROVINCETOWN IB SCHOOL, ALLIED COMMUNITY MEMBERS, ORGANIZERS, AND LEADERS FOR A CELEBRATION OF RESILIENT HONESTY.
ON JUNE 19TH, 1865, TWO AND A HALF YEARS AFTER THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION WAS SIGNED, SOME 250,000 ENSLAVED PEOPLE IN GALVESTON, TEXAS DID NOT KNOW THEY HAD THEIR FREEDOM UNTIL UNION SOLDIERS CAME TO THE CITY AND TOLD THEM SO. JUNETEENTH IS THE CELEBRATION OF THE COMPLETION OF THE 1863 PROCLAMATION FREEING ALL ENSLAVED PEOPLES IN THE UNITED STATES.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Unitarian Universalist Meeting House of Provincetown, 236 Commercial St, PO Box 817,Provincetown,MA,United States