Juneteenth 1865-2025 – Celebrating one hundred and sixty years.

Thursday June 19, 2025 from 5-8 pm Hufnagel Park

Other names for Juneteenth

• Jubilee Day
• Emancipation Day (Texas)
• Freedom Day
• Black Independence Day

Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States as it marks an important moment in American History worth reflecting on throughout the year.

Celebrated annually on June 19, Juneteenth commemorates the more than two-and-a-half-year delayed end to slavery in the United States, when Texas defied orders to end enslavement and kept African Americans enslaved, in bondage, two years, six months, and seventeen days after the Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863). Referring to June 19, 1865, the day commemorates when Major General Gordon Granger finally enforced the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War.

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, inaugurated its first official, town-wide annual celebration of Juneteenth in 2024. This has been a long-planned and thoughtfully organized partnership between the borough, community members, and Bucknell University, which has benefited from collaboration with the Williamsport Community.

The Lewisburg Juneteenth celebration is generously supported, in part, by The First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania.