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Adjoajo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Black American pastor and civil rights leader who made June 19 the "Solidarity Day of the Poor People’s Campaign"
American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist
Late President of the National Association of Juneteenth Lineage
American politician, first black woman from Michigan to be elected to Congress and sponsored the first federal legislation to recognize "Juneteenth Independence Day"
African American abolitionist, orator, newspaper publisher, and author who is famous for his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
Former Texas State Representative and known as "Father of Juneteenth Holiday"
American writer, literary critic, and scholar
Agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South
Union Major General who issued General Order Number 3, effectively freeing slaves in the South
American activist and creator of the Juneteenth flag
Adjoajo CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
American writer and civil rights activist
Created by activist Ben Haith and refined by illustrator Lisa Jeanne Graf
American retired teacher, counselor, and activist in the movement to make Juneteenth a federally-recognized holiday
Hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954)
African-American spiritual song and one of the best-known Christian hymns
American abolitionist and social activist. Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people.
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