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Juneteenth Festival

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Juneteenth flag: red and blue with a five-pointed star

The League of Women Voters commemorates Juneteenth each year. On this day Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, TX, to announce the end of the Civil War and the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans.

In Colorado, Juneteenth has been an observed holiday and in 2021 it became a national holiday.

Read about the decades-long efforts of 97-year-old Opal Lee, the "grandmother of Juneteenth", advocating for Juneteenth as a national holiday. When she was twelve, 500 white rioters vandalized and burned down her family's home in Fort Worth, TX. Read more in her Wikipedia page.

Read more about Juneteenth in Wikipedia.

Check out parade, music, food, and cultural events over the weekend of June 15-16 that are part of the Juneteenth celebration held each year in Denver's Historic Five Points Neighborhood here

Date

Saturday, June 15, 2024, to Sunday, June 16, 2024

Location

In person at Riverdale Regional Park in Brighton at 7:00 p.m. and online meeting
redistricting.colorado.gov
9755 Henderson Rd, Waymire Dome Rendezvous Rooms
Brighton, CO 80601
USA

Registration Info

Registration is not Required