“The love we had for each other, gave us our freedom. Through perseverance and overcoming insurmountable odds, we as a people continued to strive, and thrive! This piece represents the tribes that survived and became a beacon of light for us to know the taste of freedom, through the love we share with one another”

Artist Carter J. Gatson

Juneteenth commemorates the effective end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed.