Car Show on Sunday June 22, 2008 in Camden, Arkansas in the video above.
Well we are already getting ready for 2009. The core group of us sat down and of course planned out the intimate details. Thats always fun because we have such a hard time with how we can make everyone in the city happy and still get our point acrss.
This year we decided on offering family packages so families can plan their reunion with us and choose which package best fits their budget. Once they do that they can make their payments throughout the years and be ready for Juneteenth 2009 without hurting the purse strings.
Sounds like a plan huh?
I will certainly have to keep you posted on how that goes for sure since that is going to certainly be more work administratively for me. But you know this is like a game for me. I want to know how far I can take it with this celebration. I want to know how we can educate the public about America's second independence day and still get businesses to see how they can particpate and benefit from this special day that many states are begining to recognize as a state holiday.
What I would like to say is this stay tuned for this years planning of Juneteenth 2009 Family Reunion. This is going to be very very interesting.
Next post ...meet the staff of the Juneteenth Foundation in Camden
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Plans already for 2009
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Juneteenth is America’s 2nd Independence Day celebration. Americans of African descent were trapped in the tyranny of enslavement on the country's first "4th of July", 1776, Independence Day. We honor our ancestors, Americans of African descent, who heard the news of freedom and celebrated with great joy and jubilation, on the "19th of June", Juneteenth, 1865.
It took over 88 years for the news of freedom to be announced in Southwest Texas, over two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln.
The National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign has worked diligently for several years to establish legislation in 29 states to recognize Juneteenth as a state holiday or state holiday observance, the District of Columbia, as well as the Congress of the United States. This has been a great accomplishment for the "Modern Juneteenth Movement" in America, reaching far beyond the establishment of Juneteenth as a state holiday in the place were it all began, in Texas, first celebrated in 1980.
Together we will see Juneteenth become a National Holiday in America!
“DOC”
Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D.
Chairman
National Juneteenth Holiday Campaign
National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF)
National Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC)
www.Juneteenth.us
www.19thofJune.com
www.njclc.com
www.JuneteenthJazz.com
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