"Juneteenth celebrations in the United States typically include prayer and religious services, speeches, educational events, family gatherings and picnics, and festivals with food, music, and dancing. The day is also celebrated outside the United States and is used to recognize the end of slavery as well as to celebrate African American culture and achievements."
About What We Do
Juneteenth Celebration Festival is 2-Day event happening again June 18th-June 19th, 2023. The Black & Minority Owned Business Network of SE Georgia, Inc. is a Limited Liability Corporation based in Ludowici, Georgia. All funds raised for the Juneteenth Celebration Festival will used for festival operations, including event setup and designs, scholarships and to fund programs for the cultural and economical development.
Why and When Was Juneteenth Created?
"Freedom finally came on June 19, 1865, when some 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas. The army announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved black people in the state, were free by executive decree. This day came to be known as "Juneteenth," by the newly freed people in Texas.
President Joe Biden signed the bill ( Pub. L. 117–17 (text) (PDF)) on June 17, 2021, making Juneteenth the eleventh American federal holiday and the first to obtain legal observance as a federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was designated in 1983.
The name "Juneteenth" references the date of the holiday, combining the words "June" and "nineteenth." "On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger led the Union Soldiers to Galveston, TX, to announce the end of the war and the freedom of all enslaved people."
Mission: To educate and bring awareness to our culture through the celebration of the emancipation of slavery by providing year-round activities and events that remind us of how far we've come
but still acknowledge how far we have to go.
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