Sat, Jun 15
|Washington State Labor Council
AAWA at PSARA Juneteenth Celebration 2024
Sponsored by: Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action, Seattle /KingCounty African American Reparations Committee, Washington State Labor Council, MLK Labor. Featured Speakers: April Sims, Cherika Carter, Larry Gossett
Time & Location
Jun 15, 2024, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Washington State Labor Council, 321 16th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98144, USA
About the event
Juneteenth Celebration 2024
https://www.psara.org/juneteenth-2024
Saturday, June 15, 1:00–2:30 p.m.
Outdoor event: 16th Ave. South from Jackson Street north to South Main Street
Sponsored by: Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action,
Seattle /KingCounty African American Reparations Committee,
Washington State Labor Council, MLK Labor
Featured Speakers: April Sims, Cherika Carter, Larry Gossett
Also including members from the African-American Writers' Alliance (AAWA)
The national Juneteenth holiday commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas – two months after the Confederacy had surrendered. That was about 2 1/2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Southern states. It's the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983.