Let’s just start out by meeting Opal Lee who i in her 90s and has pent her entire life working to make Juneteenth a national holiday!
Now this article is local to Philadelphia, but has a good bit of info in there related to the importance of oral storytelling in the Black community (and really, and community of color) and how oral storytelling has helped preserve the traditions of Juneteenth.
This is the Library of Congress Blog where you can read journals, see pictures, and hear recordings from people who were there when the Juneteenth proclamation was read! Now, CW, if you listen to the recording here, you will hear racial slurs.
In this link you’ll find a story from a professor talking about how the story of Juneteenth is misrepresented often. It goes through some personal narrative and also talks about some historical reasons why the story is told a little off from reality.
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