Juneteenth: History and Memory

Date: June 13, 2024

Time: 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Location(s):

Museum of the Coastal Bend - 361-582-2511

Joseph Locke will speak about the establishment of Juneteenth as an annual commemoration of the abolishment of slavery. Dr. Locke is a historian who specializes in the history of the American South and Southwest in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He graduated from the University of Texas and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Rice University, and currently chairs the department of Criminal Justice, Political Science and History at UHV.

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