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Join The Amistad Center for Art & Culture and the Wadsworth for Juneteenth Family Day. Gather with us outdoors for festivities including: live music from The Lost Tribe, crafting, African drumming with Alvin Carter, Jr., storytelling by Andre Keitt, Anne Cubberly’s famous giant puppets, and family-friendly tours at 12:15 & 1:30pm. In case of inclement weather, activities will take place inside the museum.
Juneteenth—the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States—is a recognition of June 19, 1865, when the enslaved in Galveston, Texas first learned of their freedom, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.