Juneteenth Dates
What date does Juneteenth fall on in the year 2023?
What is Monday, June 19th?
Who is the person that give you an interesting and informative presentation this week about Juneteenth?
Who is Ms. Cole?
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. What town did this event originally took place.
What is Galveston, Texas?
What is the official name of the announcement (a famous executive order) that abolished slavery?
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
The announcement actually came almost ______ after the famous executive order abolished slavery.
What is 2 years?
Who signed the law making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday?
Double Jeopardy
Who is President Joe Biden?
Who is known as the "Grandmother of Juneteenth?"
Triple Points: How did she earn that title?
Who is Opal Lee
She walked from Texas to Washington, DC, to fight for Juneteenth to become a holiday.
This state was the first to recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday?
Double points: In what year?
What is Texas?
What is 1980?
What is considered the country's second Independence Day?
Double Jeopardy
What is is Juneteenth
What is June 17, 2021?
Which Union Major General informed slaves of their emancipation from slavery?
Who is Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger?
What does Juneteenth celebrate?
a) the end of the Civil War
b) the signing of the Declaration of Independence
c) the enslaved people of Texas learning of their emancipation
What is C) the enslaved people of Texas learning of their emancipation
This state became the 49th state to recognize Juneteenth as a Federal Holiday.
What is Hawaii?
Which Constitutional Amendment officially abolished chattel slavery in the United States?
What is the 13th Amendment?
What year was slavery officially abolished in the United States by executive proclamation?
Double Jeopardy
What is 1863?
Who issued the famous executive order abolishing slavery?
Who was then-President Abraham Lincoln?
A revised red, white, and blue flag honoring Juneteenth was introduced in 2000. What symbol is at the center of the flag?
Double Jeopardy
What is a star?
Why did Opal Lee travel two and a half millions per day on her journey to Washington, DC?
What is to symbolized the two and half years that black Texans spent still enslaved after the Emancipation Proclamation.
When was the Constitutional Amendment ratified in the United States that officially abolished chattel slavery?
What is December 6th, 1865?
What year was slavery officially abolished in the United States by Constitutional Amendment?
What is 1865?
In 2016 at 89 years old, she walked from her home in Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, DC to draw attention to the need for Juneteenth to become a holiday?
Who is Opal Lee?
List four ways to celebrate Juneteenth.
What is fishing, baseball, prayer service, barbecue,
dress up in fancy clothes, parades, music festivals
Why is the Emancipation Park a meaningful symbol of Juneteenth?
Double Jeopardy (2 reasons)
What is it was purchased by formerly enslaved people and it was the only public park in Houston, Texas Blacks were previously allowed to use during Jim Crow era.
Approximately how many Black individuals were still enslaved when the proclamation arrived in Texas?
What is 250,000?