The three-day Juneteenth Celebration begins at 7 p.m. Friday at Attucks Park and Community Center, 1001 South 12th Street. The celebration starts with a free movie and hot dogs or nachos.
At 8PM, Ponca City Arts and Humanities Council presents Adam and Kizzie at a free concert on the lawn at the Attucks Community Center. Guests are requested to bring lawn chairs. Concessions will be available.
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19 that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free.
This was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which had become official Jan. 1, 1863.
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