Laws of the Land
What year was slavery officially abolished in the United States by executive proclamation?
What is 1863?
Which Union Major General informed slaves of their emancipation from slavery?
Who is Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger?
What’s another name often used to commemorate Juneteenth?
What is Freedom Day/Emancipation Day/Jubilee Day?
Juneteenth commemorates the day a Union general informed slaves of their emancipation from slavery. This is the town did this event originally took place.
What is Galveston, Texas?
This community organization started the Juneteenth Festival of Buffalo in 1976.
What is BUILD?
What is the official name of the announcement (a famous executive order) that abolished slavery?
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
Who issued the famous executive order abolishing slavery?
Who was then-President Abraham Lincoln?
What symbol is surrounding the main, center symbol of the official Juneteenth flag?
What is a burst?
The executive order outlawed slavery in rebel states, but not Union states. What two Union border states continued to practice slavery up until the constitutional abolition of slavery?
What is Delaware and Kentucky?
Although the Juneteenth Festival of Buffalo is now held at Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, for the first several years it occupied this East Side thoroughfare.
What is Jefferson Avenue?
What year was slavery officially abolished in the United States by Constitutional Amendment?
What is 1865?
Who is the activist, Juneteenth official flag creator, and founder of the National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation?
Who is Ben Haith?
A revised red, white, and blue flag honoring Juneteenth was introduced in 2000. What symbol is at the center of the flag?
What is a star?
Which state was the first to recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday?
What is Texas?
Buffalo's first Juneteenth Festival featured an excerpt from a speech written by this famous Black orator in 1852.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Which Constitutional Amendment officially abolished chattel slavery in the United States?
What is the 13th Amendment?
Approximately how many slaves were estimated to be in the United States in the early 1860s before slavery was outlawed?
What is 3.9 million?
What three other colors (besides red, white, and blue) are typically used to celebrate Juneteenth?
What is red, black, and green?
This state was the first to recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday.
What is Texas, on January 1, 1980?
Calling attention to ever-present injustice and prejudice, Buffalo organizers chose to launch the first Juneteenth Festival in 1976, just before this national landmark holiday.
What is the Bicentennial?
What date does Juneteenth fall on in the year 2023?
What is June 19th?
Approximately how many Black individuals were estimated to be considered free persons in the United States in the early 1860s before slavery was outlawed?
What is 500,000?
What other flag is used to celebrate Juneteenth (other than the official red, white, and blue flag)?
What is the Pan-Africa flag?
Who were the Union and the Confederate presidents that existed in the 1800s in the United States?
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?
In the wake of George Floyd's murder and to affirm its commitment to racial justice, Rochester first celebrated Juneteenth in this year.
What is 2020?