Please note: due to the weather, this even will be held inside the Penfield Tate II Municipal Building lobby.
The City of Boulder invites the community to join in a celebration and recognition of Juneteenth. On Friday, June 16, the city will raise a Juneteenth Flag at the Penfield Tate II Municipal Building at 3 p.m. Remarks from local leaders, including representatives from Boulder City Council, NAACP and Boulder Valley schools, will follow the flag-raising.
Juneteenth, which falls on June 19 each year, celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. While the Emancipation Proclamation officially ended slavery in 1863, enforcement in all the states took several years. It wasn’t until June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers reached Galveston, Texas, that all enslaved people in the country were freed.