Juneteenth & the Reconstruction Era: Dinner and Discussion

The Boston branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation invites all to commemorate Juneteenth with us this Sunday, June 19th from 6-8PM. June 19th, 1865, marked the day that Union General Gordon Granger read General Order Number 3 in Galveston, Texas, announcing the end of slavery about two and a half years after the Emancipation proclamation.

Soon after the defeat of slavery in the Civil War came the overthrow of Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan was birthed and the former slaveholding class forced the adoption of a new system of sharecropping, mass imprisonments, and Jim Crow laws in order to terrorize and super-exploit Black people.

There has never been a pause in the struggle for Black liberation. From taking over slave ships, to burning plantations, to poisoning masters, to armed struggle against the slavocracy, to self-defense against Klan and police terror, to massive marches for voting rights, to demonstrations and rebellions against the oppression of African American people today, the long march toward freedom continues.

Join us to learn about the origin of the holiday, the history of Reconstruction and its continued relevance to the Black Liberation movement today.

COVID safety protocols will be followed.

SUNDAY, JUNE 19TH

6-8PM

BOSTON LIBERATION CENTER

194 BLUE HILL AVE, ROXBURY MA

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