06 16 2024 Bulletin: Father’s Day and Juneteenth

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Bulletin 2024 06 16

 

PENTECOST IV / JUNETEENTH

Officiants Today
Presiding: The Reverend Jeffrey C. Johnson
Assisting Minister: Jeanne Govoni

Introduction

Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It recalls how the states of Louisiana and Texas heard the news that President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. Slavery continued in those two states for more than two years after the proclamation was signed because the word had yet to travel there.

Texas and Louisiana finally got the good news on June 19, 1865. Former slaves broke out in spontaneous celebration. These were dangerous times. Even in the face of resistance and threat, the formerly enslaved Africans found ways to give voice to the wide range of thoughts and emotions at the announcement of the end of legalized slavery in the United States of America.

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