Red Drinks & Ingredients
This iconic, inexpensive red powder punch mix is a nostalgic staple used in many modern backyard Juneteenth celebrations.
What is Kool-Aid?
This sweet red beverage (often strawberry soda or punch) is a staple at celebrations, representing the resilience and bloodshed of our ancestors.
What is red drink?
Juneteenth commemorates June 19th of this historical year, when Union troops finally arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce that the Civil War had ended.
What is 1865?
Long before modern food influencers, this Harlem-based author published Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl in 1970, combining recipes with sharp commentary on civil rights and Black identity.
Who is Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor?
What is Historical Black College or University
During the Jim Crow era, drinking this specific flavor of carbonated red beverage became an act of empowerment for Black Americans celebrating freedom.
What is Strawberry Soda?
This rich, vibrant, and sweet traditional dessert is deeply associated with Juneteenth, symbolizing both the red soil of Africa and freedom.
What is Red Velvet Cake?
This Texas city is the exact location where Major General Gordon Granger read General Order No. 3, officially announcing the emancipation of enslaved people.
What is Galveston?
In 2021, this Oregon state representative introduced and championed the historic bill making Juneteenth a paid state holiday in Oregon.
Who is Rep. Janelle Bynum?
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. was founded on the campus of what HBCU?
What is Howard University?
This root is often added to modern Juneteenth punches to give the sweet beverages a warm, fiery kick.
What is Ginger?
This small, traditional Southern baked good—a sweet, buttery cookie—is a nostalgic favorite passed down through generations of African American families.
What are Tea Cakes?
Signed by President Abraham Lincoln, this 1863 declaration stated that all enslaved people in the Confederate states were forever free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation? [1, 2]
This Houston-based state representative successfully sponsored the 1979 legislation that made Juneteenth the very first paid state holiday in Texas.
What is the name of the one and only HBCU on the West Coast?
What is Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU).
This popular, bright red Texas soda is a modern shortcut frequently used in communal Juneteenth punches.
What is Big Red?
Baked into a pie or candied, this root vegetable has been a staple in African American cuisine and Juneteenth dessert tables since the days of enslavement.
What is Sweet Potato (Pie/Yams)?
While Juneteenth marked freedom being announced in Texas, this specific amendment to the United States Constitution permanently abolished slavery nationwide.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This formerly enslaved woman's 1861 narrative, 'incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,' exposed the sexual exploitation of enslaved women.
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
Florida A&M University's renowned, high-stepping marching band is famously known by this name.
What is the Marching 100?
Red drinks like strawberry soda and hibiscus tea are iconic Juneteenth traditions. This specific West African plant, dried and boiled to make a tart red drink, traveled to the Caribbean via the slave trade where it became known as "sorrel."
What is the roselle (or hibiscus) plant?
While red velvet cake is a modern Juneteenth staple, early celebrations in the late 1800s featured this specific spiced, molasses-rich cake because it could easily travel to outdoor emancipation grounds without spoiling.
What is Ginger cake or gingerbread?
Often called the "Godmother of Juneteenth," this Texas activist campaigned for decades to make the holiday a national observance, finally seeing it signed into law in 2021.
Who is Opal Lee?
This black woman was the first to publish a Civil War memoir, after serving as a nurse and laundress for a Black Union regiment.
Who is Susie King Taylor?
This historic oak tree, which still stands on the campus of Hampton University, was the site of the first Southern reading of this historic document.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?