Reimagining Freedom in America
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Reimagining Freedom in America!!! A Candid Conversation about Juneteenth: The Historical Significance of Juneteenth for All Americans
With Special Guests:
Senator Kimberly A. Lightford, Illinois Senate Majority Leader
Steve Williams, President of the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation
Deborah Evans, National Juneteenth Observance Foundation
In collaboration with the Forest Park Library and the Historical Society of Forest Park as part of the 2021 Black History series.
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Join us as we livestream a candid conversation with Mayor Rory Hoskins, Senator Kimberly A. Lightford, and others on the historical significance of Juneteenth for all Americans. Juneteenth, or June 19, is the annual observance to celebrate the date Union soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all remaining slaves in Galveston, Texas. Forest Park held its inaugural Juneteenth celebration, a family pool party, in 2009. Reimaging Freedom in America: A Candid Conversation about Juneteenth will highlight the role Forest Park residents and other Illinoisans have played in Juneteenth initiatives as well as ongoing efforts to make Juneteenth a state and national holiday.
Sign the petition to make Juneteenth a National Holiday in 2021
Sign up to be entered into a drawing for a Forest Park Against Racism T-shirt.
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