Juneteenth Celebration at AAMP!
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Presented as part of this year’s Welcome America festival, AAMP hosts a daylong outdoor celebration in honor of the Juneteenth holiday. The Museum’s Juneteenth celebration will include educational activities for youth and families, food and handmade wares by local vendors, and a live stage with performances by Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble, Nina “Lyrispect” Ball, Aijee, Drum Like a Lady, Warren Oree and the Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble, and V. Shayne Frederick. The museum’s Juneteenth sound stage will be hosted by Philadelphia media personality Stephanie Renee. Also on this day, the museum will offer free admission to our galleries between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. courtesy of Wawa. Guests are encouraged to register in advance for time-entry tickets to experience AAMP’s core exhibition Audacious Freedom: African Americans in Philadelphia, 1776-1876, and the museum’s latest special exhibition, Anna Russell Jones: The Art of Design. Learn more about how we are keeping you safe and what you can do to help by viewing our Safety Tips online prior to your visit.
More on Juneteenth: Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States, dating back to June 19, 1865. The Freedom March began on January 1, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation; and ended when Union soldiers -- including many African Americans from the Philadelphia area -- read General Order #3 to enslaved Africans in Galveston, Texas, thereby enforcing President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and emancipating the last enslaved Africans in Texas on June 19th, 1865. This was two years, five months, and eighteen days after President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. The Freedom Day celebration was given the name Juneteenth because USCT’s of the 25th Corps freed all enslaved Africans on Texan plantations in June, between the 13th and the 19th.
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