Juneteenth Festival 2023
Three-panel Juneteenth event flyer: left panel shows sliced pound cake with text for “Best Pound Cake Contest,” Tuesday, June 13th at 4:30 PM (City of Seneca, SC); center panel advertises a “Juneteenth Evening Concert Featuring Xperience,” Saturday, June 17th, 6:00–9:00 PM; right panel features a portrait of musician Mac Arnold with details for “Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues Concert,” Sunday, June 18th, 5:00–7:00 PM at the Clemson Area African American Museum.

Juneteenth (abbreviation for “June Nineteenth”) commemorates the day when U.S. General Gordon Granger and federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, two...

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The Unseen Truth: Lecture by Sarah Lewis
Book cover of The Unseen Truth by Sarah Lewis, featuring a black-and-white image of a solitary figure walking through a colonnade, with the subtitle “When Race Changed Sight in America.”

Description from Harvard University Press: In a masterpiece of historical detective work, Sarah Lewis exposes one of the most damaging lies in American history. There...

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