History
This Date in June is Celebrated as Juneteenth every year.
What is June 19th?
This red-colored drink, rooted in West African tradition, is a Juneteenth cookout staple.
What is red soda/strawberry drink/hibiscus tea?
Juneteenth became an official U.S. federal holiday in this year.
What is June 2021?
This civil rights leader delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This genre of music, born in the American South, is deeply rooted in Black history and the struggle of freedom.
What is the blues?
This Texas city is where Union soldiers announced freedom on June 19, 1865.
What is Galveston?
Juneteenth is also known by this two-word name celebrating liberty.
What is Freedom Day?
This state was the first to make Juneteenth on official state holiday, in 1980.
What is Texas?
This abolitionist and freedom fighter escaped slavery and led over a dozen missions on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This powerful style of Black American vocal music originated in the Church and was central to the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Gospel?
This Union general read General Order No. 3, declaring enslaved Texans free.
Who is General Gordon Granger?
The Juneteenth Flag uses these three colors, mirroring the American flag.
What are red, white, and blue?
Enslaved people in Texas didn't hear about their freedom until this many years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is 2 years (and 6 months)?
This formerly enslaved man became one of America's greatest abolitionist speakers and published a newspaper called The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This iconic singer, known as the "Queen of Soul," sang "Respect" and became a symbol of Black pride and dignity.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This presidential order, issued January 1, 1863, declared enslaved people in Confederate states free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is a cookout/barbecue?
This president signed the bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday on June 17, 2021.
Who is president Joe Biden?
This woman refused to give up her bus seat in 1955, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks?
The Writer and Poet, author of "I know why the Caged Bird Sings,' recited an original poem at President Clinton's 1993 inauguration.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This constitutional amendment, ratified in December 1865, abolished slavery across all of the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This arc on the Juneteenth flag symbolizes this concept-a future of limitless possibility.
What are the new horizons?
The word "Juneteeth" is blend of these two words.
What are June and nineteenth?
This lawyer and NAACP attorney won the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case and later became the first Black Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This groundbreaking 1959 Broadway play by Lorraine Hansberry was the first by a Black Woman on Broadway- its title comes from a Langston Hughes Poem.
What is a Raisin in the Sun?