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On Juneteenth
- Date: Wednesday, June 02, 2021
- Time: 7:00 pm
- Location: Online
In On Juneteenth, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed tells the sweeping story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history and provides a historian’s view of the country’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction through Jim Crow and beyond. Joining Annette Gordon-Reed in conversation will be Roy Young, CEO of James Madison’s Montpelier, and The Reverend Dr. Halliard Brown, Jr., a board member of the Orange County, Virginia, African-American Historical Society.
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This program is presented in partnership with James Madison’s Montpelier.
