Juneteenth Homecoming Celebration

The Linn Benton NAACP invites the community to a free, family-friendly Juneteenth Celebration on Saturday, June 20, from 2 to 7 p.m. at the Corvallis Community Center. The event features live music, dancing, games, food by Smith Catering, and a workshop presentation by Dr. Dana Emerson.

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally and internationally recognized commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. It marks the day—June 19, 1865—when enslaved people in Texas finally learned they were free, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.