Events for Jun 17, 2022
6:00 PM
Friday Night Juneteenth Services with Special Guest Thomas Chatterton Williams: The Summer of George Floyd
On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the ending of slavery in the United States. No one before had informed the 250,000 enslaved people in far-off Texas that Abraham Lincoln had emancipated them 29 months earlier. The celebration that erupted that day in Galveston spread across Texas, then across the […]
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