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Juneteenth is a portmanteau for which two words?
What is "June" and "Nineteenth?"
This man escaped slavery, stole a Confederate transport ship to give to the Union, and served as a politician. He authored legislation to create the first free compulsory school system in the U.S.
Who is Robert Smalls?
This is the estimated number of people taken from African during the Atlantic Slave Trade, c. 15th-19th centuries.
What is 12.5 million people?
This Houston, Texas park was established by several men to honor Black communities, mark the end of slavery, and to hold lessons on voting.
What is Emancipation Park?
These are the three colors of the Juneteenth flag.
This was one of the three original names for the holiday.
What are "Juneteenth," "Emancipation Day," or "Jubilee Day?"
As a child, this woman learned to read and write in secret, served as a nurse for the USCT, and was a teacher. She is the first and only Black woman to write of her Civil War experiences.
Who is Susie King Taylor?
This is the estimated average number of people enslaved in the United States annually from 1815-1865.
What is 1.6 million people?
Beginning in the 18th century, enslaved workers were guides for this national landmark. Today, they are viewed as legends and pioneers of the cave.
What is Mammoth Cave National Park?
The star on the center of the flag is a nod to this state.
What is Texas?
Enslaved people in this Texas city were the last to learn of emancipation, beginning the holiday.
What is Galveston, Texas?
This prominent Houston minister and leader advocated for equal education and legal rights, founded an HBCU, and helped to establish Emancipation Park in Texas.
Who is Reverend Jack Yates?
What made slavery in the United States different from slavery anywhere else in the world?
What is:
1. Partus sequitor ventrem (matrilineal slavery)
2. Legally codified/no social mobility (chattel slavery, Jim Crow, 3/5ths Compromise)
3. Rise of scientific racism
4. Major global ties
This Nashville landmark hosts the best Juneteenth party in town, starting at 5 pm, with fireworks starting later.
What is Fort Negley?
This is the year that the Juneteenth flag was created by "Boston Ben" Haith.
What is 1997?
The first official Juneteenth celebration took place in this year.
What is 1866?
Who is Opal Lee?
This term is used to describe the migration of Black Americans away from the South as they resettled in other parts of the country, particularly the West.
What is Exodusters/the Great Migration/Scatter?
This Tennessee city was the first to desegregate public facilities; their public library has an entire room dedicated to the struggle.
What is Nashville (and the Main/Church St. Branch of the Library)
Seriously, we can all take a field trip because it's one of the highlights of the entire city.
The arc on the flag symbolizes a better one of these.
What is tomorrow?
This great Civil Rights figure is credited with reviving Juneteenth memory at the 1968 Poor People's March.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
This indomitable woman sued the man who kidnapped her nearly 20 years later- she holds the record for the largest verdict against an enslaver in the United States by an enslaved person.
Who is Henrietta Wood?
This was the first state to declare Juneteenth a state holiday, in 1980.
What is Texas?
This familiar downtown Nashville building was built by the country's first Black architecture firm, and was once the site of a slave market.
What is the Morris Memorial Building/the Sunday School Publishing Board building?
A nova creates a new star, meaning a new beginning. For that reason, Haith placed a nova here to symbolize a new beginning for African Americans.
What is the nova in the center?