Below is a link to the Buffalo Soldiers locations throughout the United States. Find the chapter close to you and let us know by email events@nationaljuneteenth.org So we can start scheduling our events with them. National Buffalo Soldiers 9th & 10th (Horse) Cavalry Association
History of Juneteenth Presented by Dr. Shennette Garrett-Scott Wednesday, June 19, at the Allen Public Library. Her program traces the history of Juneteenth events from the late nineteenth-century freedmen colonies” and settlements’ celebrations to the present community events.
Juneteenth: Freedom At Last Slavery persisted in the South even after the Emancipation Proclamation and the passage of the 13th Amendment. In the most remote corners of the Confederacy, news of slavery’s end did not come until more than two months after Robert E. Lee’s surrender in April 1865. The day that General Order No. […]
What is Juneteenth? Opio Sokoni Published on Jun 22, 2010
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