'Our goal is for Saturday to be an opportunity to educate the broader community about the importance of fighting for freedom.'
The holiday celebrating the emancipation of slaves in Texas is gaining recognition as protests against police brutality continue in the United States.For 13 years, Philadelphia's only accessible and intact stop on the Underground Railroad has celebratedpandemic would stop the historic Johnson House from celebrating the tradition this year, you were wrong.made its Juneteenth festival even more important. So they decided to go virtual.
Elected officials, community leaders, youth and drum and marching bands take part in the second annual Juneteenth Parade, in Philadelphia, on June 22, 2019. They will have a virtual panel discussion, poetry, drummers, reenactments and a children's book giveaway.Swinson said understanding the meaning and importance of Juneteenth is the reason not only to continue the festival, but to educate people of all races.
The historic Johnson House is seen along Germantown Avenue in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, PA, on November 9, 2017.Now a historic site and museum, the Johnson House was owned by the Johnson family, Quaker abolitionists who worked with other European Americans and African Americans --both free and enslaved -- to secure safe passage along freedom routes and safe houses.
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