Juneteenth 2023: Celebration of Freedom Event at Booker T. Washington National Monument

Booker T. Washington National Monument's 22nd Juneteenth Gospel Celebration will be held June 17, 2023 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Join us for gospel music, a talk and tour about Booker T. Washington and Juneteenth, and children's activities. 

Be sure to bring your own chairs and umbrellas or canopies for shade this year! 

This celebration commemorates the release of approximately four million people of African descent from the bonds of slavery after the end of the Civil War.  Booker T. Washington remembered the great day of emancipation stating his mother “was standing by my side, leaned over and kissed her children, while tears of joy ran down her cheeks.  She explained to us what it all meant, that this was the day for which she had been so long praying, but fearing that she would never live to see.”

This celebration takes place on the plantation where Booker  T. Washington was born. The day includes living history tours about the first breath of freedom Booker T. Washington took in the spring of 1865. There will be gospel singing, food vendors, and children's activities.

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