Juneteenth
Explore Our Online Exhibits
Breaking News
Worldwide Community Events
Week 2
- Sun 28
- Mon 29
- Tue 30
- Wed 1
- Thu 2
- Fri 3
- Sat 4
- Sun 5
- Mon 6
- Tue 7
- Wed 8
- Thu 9
- Fri 10
- Sat 11
- Sun 12
- Mon 13
- Tue 14
- Wed 15
- Thu 16
- Fri 17
- Sat 18
- Sun 19
- Mon 20
- Tue 21
- Wed 22
- Thu 23
- Fri 24
- Sat 25
- Sun 26
- Mon 27
- Tue 28
- Wed 29
- Thu 30
- Fri 31
- Sat 1
-
28September28September8:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
29September29SeptemberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
30September30SeptemberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
01October01OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
02October02OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
03October03OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
04October04OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
05October05OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
06October06OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
07October07OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
08October08OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
09October09OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum09OctoberSilicon Valley African Film Festival
The Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose -
10October10OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum10OctoberSilicon Valley African Film Festival
The Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose -
11October11OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum11OctoberSilicon Valley African Film Festival
The Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose -
12October12OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum12OctoberSilicon Valley African Film Festival
The Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose -
13October13OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
14October14OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
15October15OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
16October16OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
17October17OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
18October18OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
19October19OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
20October20OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
21October21OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
22October22OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
23October23OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum23October12:00 PM - 1:30 PMCivics In Action: Building Power for the Common Good
Marquette University Alumni Union, Rm 163 -
24October24OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
25October25OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
26October26OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
27October27OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
28October28OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
29October29OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
30October30OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum30October -
31October31OctoberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum -
01November01NovemberAll Day
Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum01November
Share
June 19th, also known as Juneteenth, is a day that recognizes the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19th, 1865, two years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas to inform slaveholders that they must legally those people who remained enslaved. This threat of force against the holdouts successfully ensured that the city’s remaining slaves, many of whom were already aware of slavery’s end but lacked the power to stand up to their slavers, were freed. Juneteenth has become an important day to many Black Americans and allies in the fight against racism.
Below you’ll find articles and exhibits about Juneteenth, which will automatically update as we add new stories about Juneteenth. As you scroll through these pages, you’ll understand the day’s history, efforts to increase awareness, the fight for it to be recognized as a holiday, and current events celebrating the day and its meaning.
Every year, Black Americans recognize the day when soldiers arrived in Galveston to force slaveholders to follow the president’s orders.
Read MoreA statue of a notable abolitionist was scheduled for unveiling on a day celebrating the end of slavery in the USA.
Read MoreJune 19th remains an important day of celebration for the Americans who descend from formerly enslaved people.
Read MoreIn honor of Juneteenth, the African American holiday celebrating the freeing of slaves within the Confederate states on June 19th, 1865, black groups celebrated in different ways. Find out how some chose to commemorate this day.
Read MoreThis article explores why Independence Day and patriotism in America mean something different to the African/African-American community than to white Americans. It shows how Black Americans have endured vastly differing experiences from white Americans, because unalienable rights supposed afforded in America do not apply, have not applied, to them.
Read MoreAmerican descendants of slaves have celebrated Juneteenth for 153 years, but freedom remains elusive for many.
Read MoreWith the South rising again on the watch of President Donald Trump, who plans to turn the Fourth of July this year from a celebration of America to a celebration of himself, it’s time for Americans who champion equality to begin celebrating Juneteenth.June 19, 1865 — “Juneteenth” being a combination of June and nineteenth — should remind all Americans of the long and complex fight required to end slavery here.
Read MoreThe United States will soon have a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery. The House voted 415-14 Wednesday to make Juneteenth, or June 19th, the 12th federal holiday.
Read MoreAn Op-Ed: We should be happy to popularize and celebrate Juneteenth. But we should celebrate it with the same fervor in which it was celebrated the summer of 2020, with protests, political education, and an understanding that the house of the slavemaster still stands, despite a fresh coat of paint. We must celebrate Juneteenth knowing the kind of force it took for enslaved Black people to attain emancipation – and the equivalent political force it may take to finally and absolutely uproot the American capitalist. Wisconsin celebrated it 50th Juneteenth in 2021 with a long parade up Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, complete with Civil War re-enactors, beauty queens and kings, and Black public servants, among them County Executive David Crowley and Congresswoman Gwen Moore. This city was one of the first in the nation to celebrate the holiday.
Read MoreIn the same week when Juneteenth became a national holiday, schoolteachers in Texas, where the commemoration originally marked the end of slavery in that state, could teach about these events only at their peril. An author of the original Critical Race Theory explains the consequences of “erasing” the truth about our country’s history.
Read More