Juneteenth: Celebrating Freedom

Posted by davagy on 27 April 2024

Juneteenth: Celebrating Freedom

With Historian John William Templeton, subject matter expert on African-Americans in the West and creator of the California African-American Freedom Trail. He is the author of Road to Ratification: How 27 States Faced the Most Challenging Issue in American History and Citizenship for All: 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment. He explains the real significance of the national and state holiday as a tribute to the role the U.S. Troops of African Descent who reunited the nation, freed Mexico and liberated France.

This program is brought to you thanks to the support of The Friends of the Library.