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Newsletter from the Cora Marshall Gallery - Juneteenth Edition - June 2008

Follow this link to view the full Newsletter: http://coramarshall.com/news_juneteenth08.html

Gallery Celebrates Juneteenth with Storewide Sale

The Cora Marshall Gallery proudly announces that in celebration of Juneteenth 2008, it will offer a 15% discount on all originals and limited edition Giclee prints.

About Juneteenth

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states are, and henceforward shall be, free." It took until June 19th, 1865, two and a half years later, for the news that slavery had been abolished to reach Galveston, Texas. Even so, this news inspired a time of celebration and joy at started in Texas and spread across the nation.

Today, this Freedom celebration is referred to as Juneteenth and the focus is not only on commemorating the end of slavery, but also on honoring family, friends, and community. It is a time for thanksgiving, reflection, remembering, and prayer. During the week of June 19th throughout the country people are gathering together to remember our past, reflect on our present, and anticipate the needs of our future.

Watch-Night Meetings

On New Year's Eve many African American churches hold prayer and worship services from the late evening until midnight when they welcome the new year with praise, thanksgiving, prayer, and confession. These services are called watch night meetings. December 31, 1862, was a very special evening for the African American community, because it was the night before the Emancipation Proclamation took effect, freeing the enslaved in the Confederate states.

Remembering Juneteenth: Excerpt from an Oral History

"Now, uh, after we got freed and they turned us out like cattle, we could, we didn't have nowhere to go. And we didn't have nobody to boss us, and, uh, we didn't know nothing. There wasn't, wasn't no schools. And when they started a little school, why, the people that were slaves, there couldn't many of them go to school, except they had a father and a mother. And my father was dead, and my mother was living, but she had three, four other little children, and she had to put them all to work for to help take care of the others. So we had, uh, we had what you call, worse than dogs has got it now. Dogs has got it now better than we had it when we come along. I know, I remember one night, I was out after I, I was free, and I didn't have nowhere to go. I didn't have nowhere to sleep. I didn't know what to do."

Fountain Hughes, Baltimore, Maryland, June 11, 1949
Gallery Celebrates Juneteenth with Storewide Sale

The Cora Marshall Gallery proudly announces that in celebration of Juneteenth 2008, it will offer a 15% discount on all originals and limited edition Giclee prints.

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