Juneteenth celebrated at Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery
Juneteenth was celebrated at the Rosa Parks Museum in downtown Montgomery.
Yesterday, the museum offered music, food and children’s activities in addition to tours of the museum, which honors the life and work of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.
Organizers say it’s important to always remember Black history and the sacrifices of others who came before today’s generation.
“I mean, it’s Black history and we look at Black history every day here at the museum and we really try to get the community involved. So I would encourage family and friends, get out there, go see different sites. Go to museums, go to art festivals. You know there’s something for everybody to do,” McKenzie Walker, the education coordinator at the Rosa Parks Museum, told Action 8 News..
“It is because of not only just the prayers of our ancestors, but the work of our ancestors who came before us and that to fulfill their legacy or to fulfill their goal, which is liberation for all not some, it’s important that we continue to keep moving forward by any means necessary,” Black Lives Matter grassroots organizers Travis Jackson said.
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery city bus on December 1, 1955, which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a key event in the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, found out they had been freed after the end of the Civil War, and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The holiday is coming up Thursday, June 19.
