Saturday, June 16th, Cheyenne: Juneteenth Cultural Park Festival. Celebrate the day the Blacks in Texas finally found out they were no longer slaves, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Food and merchandise vendors, rap groups, demonstrations and non-profits. 11 AM, Martin Luther King, Jr. Park, Ames Ave at Martin Luther King Ct. Info: Chris, 634-9622 ext13. Free.
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Wyoming's only largest Juneteenth celebration set for June 16 in Cheyenne
This comes from Nancy Sindelar's excellent e-newsletter. BTW, the Chris you see named at the bottom of your screen is my lovely wife, YMCA membership coordinator and fellow NAACP member. You can catch her talking about Juneteenth on Channel 5 tomorrow morning, some time between 6-7 a.m. Here's the news:
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There will also be one in Casper, organized by Rev. William Pierce of Imitate the Image Ministries, 1124 N Elma St. I have not managed to contact to get the details. --n.
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