Coming up Saturday June 15th, the Progressive Women of Huntsville will celebrate Juneteenth. There will be a parade, a barbecue cookoff, flag football and other events. This year the theme is “Family, Freedom, and the Future.”
At 8 AM, the parade will line up by the Martin Luther King Center. At 10 AM, the barbecue kickoff gets underway.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture says, “On June 19, 1865, nearly two years after President Abraham Lincoln emancipated enslaved Africans in America, Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas with news of freedom. More than 250,000 African Americans embraced freedom by executive decree in what became known as Juneteenth or Freedom Day. With the principles of self-determination, citizenship, and democracy magnifying their hopes and dreams, those Texans held fast to the promise of true liberty for all.”
