{"id":66319,"date":"2022-06-13T12:41:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T19:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=66319"},"modified":"2022-06-15T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T19:28:08","slug":"juneteenth-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/juneteenth-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorating Juneteenth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The NAU community is encouraged to join the Flagstaff community in a celebration of Juneteenth in the coming days.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Juneteenth, which is short for June 19, commemorates the last slaves being freed in Texas after the Civil war. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/juneteenth-day-celebration.html\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">The New York Times<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> Juneteenth originated in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, two months after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia, officially ending the Civil War. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston to officially inform slaves of their freedom and the end of the war. Juneteenth is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, President Biden officially made Juneteenth a federal holiday. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Flagstaff Murdoch Center is hosting a series of public events and activities to commemorate the holiday. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Inaugural Juneteenth gala: 5-9 p.m. at the High Country Conference Center\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Community festival: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 18 at the Murdoch Community Center. There will be vendors, games, and musical performances.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559684&quot;:-2,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Juneteenth concert featuring Serpentire Fire: 3 p.m. June 19 at the Pepsi Amphitheater at Fort Tuthill. Tickets are available at<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flagstaffsymphony.org\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">flagstaffsymphony.org<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nmaahc.si.edu\/explore\/stories\/historical-legacy-juneteenth\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Learn more about Juneteenth from the National Museum of African American History &amp; Culture.<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/juneteenth-2022\/\">The NAU community is encouraged to join the Flagstaff community in a celebration of Juneteenth in the coming days.\u00a0 Juneteenth, which is short for June 19, commemorates the last slaves being freed in Texas after the Civil war. According to The New York Times Juneteenth originated in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, two months&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":66337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}