Remembrance of Juneteenth: The day of Jubilee
Juneteenth is a testament to the power of everyday people in the fight for freedom and justice. While we all understand that Juneteenth commemorates the moment enslaved people in Galveston, Texas finally learned of their freedom two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, we should also understand this moment to be a breakthrough of the cumulative efforts of countless everyday individuals who resisted injustice in their own ways. I'm struck by the diverse freedom fighters of that day—like Luis Gama, Abby Kelley Foster, James Forten, Charles Grandison Finney, Maria Weston Chapman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper—people from completely different backgrounds who each contributed to building the foundation of resistance that made emancipation even possible.
I invite each of you to attend the Juneteenth flag raising to commemorate the day of Jubilee and to remember our responsibility to each other in the present.
Hillsboro
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 17 | 12:30pm
Location: Creighton Hall, South Entrance, Courtyard
Forest Grove
Date/Time: Wednesday, June 18 | 12:00pm
Location: Intersection of College Way & 21st Ave