Juneteenth Basics
Juneteenth celebrates the ...
What is "End of slavery"?
Juneteenth became a Federal Holiday this year.
What is 2021?
These foods are traditionally eaten at a Juneteenth celebration.
Barbecue, red foods (watermelon and red velvet cake, etc) & common south food like collard greens, black-eyed peas and cornbread.
This Civil Rights Leader delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech
Who is Martin Luther King?
Most plantations were clustered along a stretch of this river.
What is the Mississippi river?
This state is where Juneteenth originated.
What is Texas? (Galveston)
This amendment to the U.S Constitution abolished slavery worldwide.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Foods and drinks of this color are commonly served during Juneteenth.
What are red drinks?
This song is known as the Black national anthem.
What is Lift Every Voice and Sing?
This university in the largest (and BEST) Historically Black College and University in Louisiana.
What is SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE? (Geaux Jags🐆🩵!)
This U.S President signed the law making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday.
Who Is Joe Biden?
Most confederate enslaved people learned they were free this many years AFTER the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is 2 years?
These are the traditional Juneteenth colors that represents Black history.
What is Red, Black and Green
This Supreme Court justice became the 1st African American woman to serve on the nation's highest court.
Who is Kentaji Brown Jackson?
This Louisiana Civil Rights pioneer integrated an elementary school in New Orleans at the age of 6.
Who is Ruby Bridges
This proclamation declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation ?
This war was fought months before the ratification of Juneteenth.
What is the Civil War?
These are the symbols of the traditional Juneteenth Red, Black and green colors.
What is Blood, People and Land.
Red- The bloodshed of the enslaved.
Black- The People, our shared skin color and resilience.
Green- The Land.
This is the year the 1st African American president was elected.
What is 2009?
Before the Civil War, Louisiana's economy relied heavily on these crops.
What is sugarcane and cotton?
This President ISSUED the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln ?
The Emancipation Proclamation took effect on this date.
What is January 1 1863
This is one of the traditional red drinks served at Juneteenth cookout
What is Strawberry Soda?
She became the 1st African American woman elected to Congress in 1968.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This Louisiana native became the 1st Black female millionaire.
Who is Madam C.J Walker?