Juneteenth Basics
The U.S. holiday that marks the day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free.
What is Juneteenth?
This presidential proclamation and executive order freed all enslaved changing the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the secessionist Confederate states from enslaved to free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The year Kenya gained independence from Britain.
What is 1963?
The woman who helped hundreds escape slavery and was called “Moses of her people.”
Who was Harriet Tubman?
These are foods that are eaten during Juneteenth celebrations in the United States.
What are red foods and drinks, and soul foods?
The U.S. state where Juneteenth was first celebrated.
What is Texas?
One form of resistance enslaved people used to oppose their condition.
What is escaping, sabotaging work, preserving culture, or rebelling?
The Kenyan holiday that celebrates internal self-rule.
What is Madaraka Day?
Two Black leaders who promoted Pan-Africanism and Black pride.
Who were Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey?
These types of music are played during Juneteenth celebrations.
What are blues, Jazz, Hip Hop, or spirituals music?
The year Juneteenth was officially recognized as a federal holiday.
What is 2021?
The secret network that helped enslaved people flee to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The group that led an armed rebellion against British colonial rule.
Who were the Mau Mau?
The U.S. civil rights leader who gave the “I Have a Dream” speech.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.?
These colors are used on the Juneteenth flag?
What are red, white, and blue?
The name of the Union general who arrived in Galveston to enforce emancipation.
Who was General Gordon Granger?
An African people from whom many enslaved people in the Americas descended.
Who are the Yoruba, Kongo, or Ashanti?
A Kenyan leader who was jailed during the independence movement.
Who was Jomo Kenyatta, Bildad Kaggia, or Oginga Odinga?
A unifying idea that inspired freedom movements on both sides of the Atlantic.
What is Pan-Africanism?
This U.S. holiday shares themes with Kenya’s Madaraka Day in celebrating freedom and national identity.
What is Juneteenth?
The number of years between the Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth.
What is 2.5 years?
A similarity between transatlantic slavery and British colonial rule in Kenya in the context of Juneteenth.
What is exploitation, resistance, or the fight for liberation?
What connects the delayed freedom of enslaved Texans and Kenya’s colonial struggle.
What is the withholding of freedom and the need to resist for justice?
She was a Jazz/Blues singer who used her art to advocate for black liberation during the civil rights movement.
Wh0o was Nina Simons?
This type of public gathering is common during Juneteenth and often includes food, music, and speeches.
What is a cookout, p[arades or community festival?