JUNETEENTH IN HARTFORD, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 3:30-5:30pm

You are invited to celebrate with us at LYMAN POINT PARK and share in
speeches and entertainment; JAG productions; Dia Draper, 15 years leading
diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) events in the Upper Valley and now Tuck
School DEI Ass’t. Dean; VT Senator Kesha Ram Hinsdale, also a candidate for
U.S Congress; VT Rep. Kevin “Coach” Christie, also Hartford School Board
Chair; Maggi Ibrahim, Hartford Schools Equity Coordinator; and others.
Food and beverages available.

Juneteenth, a federal holiday, commemorates the end of enslavement in the
United States. Although President Lincoln signed the Emancipation
Proclamation in 1863, the news did not reach the enslaved people in Texas
until former Union soldiers arrived two years later in Galveston, TX  to share
the Emancipation Proclamation on June 19. Sponsored by Town of Hartford &
Hartford Committee on Racial Equity and Inclusion.