Multiple Dallas-area nonprofits held an event Monday evening at Old City Party aimed at teaching the city's ties to Juneteenth.
official federal holiday
, and multiple nonprofits that promote Black history in Dallas are reminding people the importance of the day. In 2016, North Texas civil rights activist Opal Lee, known to many as the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” marched from Fort Worth to Washington D.C. to push for the day to be recognized nationally. President Joe Biden inOpal Lee pushes one of her great granddaughters in a stroller as she leads walkers up Pennsylvania Avenue during the 2022 Opal's Walk for Freedom on Saturday, June 18, 2022, in Fort Worth.
Remembering Black Dallas on Monday is sponsoring an event to teach people about the city’s ties to the holiday, which started in 1865. It commemorates the day enslaved people in Galveston learned President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which was issued more than two years prior.
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