Honoring Juneteenth

Announced on: Monday, June 10, 2024

Honoring Juneteenth "What if Juneteenth was our July 4th?"

Frederick Douglass once famously asked, "What to a slave is the fourth of July?" July 4th is about liberty, but it was an imperfect liberty, because people were still legally enslaved.

Come celebrate Juneteenth throughout the month of June with the Valene Smith Museum of Anthropology. We are reprising the pop-up exhibition How the Word is Passed; A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America based on the book by Clint Smith with the same title. Celebrating Juneteenth helps us understand what it took for a people and a nation to survive. It allows each generation to reflect on what more there is to do.

The Museum is open Monday through Thursday 11-3 in the summer.