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Every person in Georgia and throughout the Southeast young and old should be introduced to the artistic and cultural expressions of the greatest event that occurred in America’s history, the late learned freedom of the last known African descendants still caught in the ills of legalized slavery. Juneteenth Atlanta does just that by providing cultural education, art collectives, inspirational exhibitions, musical expressions, African dance collectives, as well as numerous classes and workshops specific to the continued progress and achievements of surviving African descendants living in America. Juneteenth Atlanta also puts a heavy 24|7|12 emphasis on the awareness and improvement of community conditions specifically in the Atlanta Metropolitan through collective community works, clean ups, and other beneficial initiatives. Company Overview: Juneteenth Atlanta is a community based non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2012. Juneteenth Atlanta produces a three day cultural festival and is on track to building the world’s largest parade that displays African history. Juneteenth Atlanta also works with other non profit organizations and community groups that serve the people. General Information Juneteenth is the event that all people and especially people of African descent should know as America’s second Independence Day celebration and the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery (as it were) in America. It has also been called freedom day or emancipation day: however, we call it Juneteenth. Juneteenth represents the freedom that African descendants stand on today! Freedom from anything and everything oppressive or harmful! Juneteenth also commemorates our ancestors for what they achieved throughout history known and unknown. Historical fact: African descendants were still trapped in the tyranny of enslavement on the country’s first “4th of July” in 1776, even though that period was set aside as Independence Day for all it was not. It did not include African people. It took 89 years after 1776 for the second news of freedom that was specific to Africans and was announced to the last known enslaved Africans in Southwest Texas on June 19, 1865. The last southern state in rebellion during the Civil War, where enslavement was still allowed, was Galveston, Texas.
ABOUT JUNETEENTH If slavery was the worst thing that happen in America’s history then we can agree that the ending of slavery would have to be the greatest event that occurred in American history.
Once hearing the news the first Juneteenth celebration was established!
The heart of the celebration is the reading of General Order #3 by a community elder. As the words are read, everyone listening can imagine how they sounded on June 19th, 1865 to the African/African American people of Galveston, Texas, who learned that day that they were legally free and had been so for years.