PBS BOOKS: A Juneteenth Commemoration: Lift Every Voice and Sing

Date/Time
Date(s) - Thursday, June 17, 2021
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location
All JHLS Library Branches

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The livestream begins at 7:00 PM CT. Watch it below. Click here for more information about the program. Here’s an excerpt:

On Thursday, June 17, at 8 p.m. ET, PBS Books will share a special virtual program — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — which is created by 10 leading Black museums and historical institutions across the nation. Celebrating the victory and liberty of the African American people and representing www.blkfreedom.org’s second year of collaboration, the virtual program will be offered in partnership with The Charles H. Wright Museum. The event can be viewed here and www.facebook.com/pbsbooks1/live.

The event will commemorate Juneteenth, the day that the Emancipation Proclamation was officially enforced, ending enslavement in Texas. Juneteenth dates to June 19, 1865, when union soldier, Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas, with the news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. This announcement was more than two and half years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.