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Cross-Cultural Competence Guide: June

Resources to help our campus community communicate, interact with, and understand people from different cultures.

June Highlights

Heritage Months

Picture of a child whose face is painted to resemble the flag of the Dominican RepublicJune has been proclaimed Caribbean American Heritage Month by the sitting president every year since 2006.

Immigrant Heritage Month is a more recent celebration, starting in 2021.

Photo by Jean Carlos Taravine Smith on Unsplash

Celebrating Juneteenth in Hagerstown

Doleman Black Heritage MuseumOn June 19th, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation and four months after the Thirteenth Amendment was signed by Abraham Lincoln, the enslaved people of Galveston Bay, Texas finally received word of their freedom. That day was memorialized as Juneteenth.

The Doleman Black Heritage Museum will be celebrating Juneteenth with several events over the weekend. See their website for more information

Visit the Brish Library's page on Juneteenth for more events and resources.

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