Alameda Commemorates Juneteenth

The screening, which runs 1 hour and 43 minutes, is based on actual events in the fight to end school segregation and is set in the courtrooms of history, capturing the real words in court cases that culminated in Brown vs. The Board of Education. The script draws from the trial transcripts of the five cases that were brought together in front of the Supreme Court and Chief Justice Earl Warren's memoirs. As with Juneteenth, the words of Brown took effect years after the legal ruling.

 

Juneteenth commemorates the effective end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to carry the announcement that all enslaved people were free, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. The next year, the first celebration of Juneteenth/Jubilee Day was organized on June 19th.

 

The Brown vs. Board of Education ruling made history in 1954, 89 years after Juneteenth. 2021 is the 156th year commemorating Juneteenth, and we continue to fight for freedom and equality, and against racism, hate, and bigotry. Juneteenth stands to remind us that all must be free, and yet no one is free until all are free.

 

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