Juneteenth Shabbat Celebration
Hybrid - Temple 3935 Macomb St. NW, Washington, DC, United StatesJuneteenth has long been celebrated by African Americans in the U.S., recognizing June 19, 1865, when many enslaved people in Texas learned they had been freed. Although President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation two years earlier, it could not be enforced in many places until after the end of the Civil War in ...