1st Annual Juneteenth Celebration

1835 South Convention Center Drive,St. George UT 84790

17 June, 2022

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Join us for a fun celebration to learn more about the history of now national holiday Juneteenth featuring Amala Ekpunobi! Don't miss this first annual Juneteenth celebration. Come enjoy a banana split and hear from guest speaker Amala Ekpundobi! We will bring our community together to celebrate and learn more about the historical Juneteenth. Doors open at 6 PM to grab your banana split and seat. Program begins at 7 PM. Tickets are $35 and it is first come first serve seating. Juneteenth Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday. Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House two months earlier in Virginia, but slavery had remained relatively unaffected in Texas—until U.S. General Gordon Granger stood on Texas soil and read General Orders No. 3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” -Elizabeth Nix - www.history.com Amala Ekpundobi Bio