Buckwheat Zydeco
Juneteenth Blues Festival
June 22, 1984
Miller Outdoor Theater
Houston, TX
KPFT-FM

Soundboard/FM

Disk 10 of a set of at least 10 disks awarded as a premium for a pledge drive contribution to KPFT-FM, Houston, TX.

Tracks:
unknown titles (help appreciated)

Seeded by TheTooleMan
June 19, 2011

About Juneteenth:

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/lkj01

On June 19 ("Juneteenth"), 1865, Union general Gordon Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, thus belatedly bringing about the freeing of 250,000 slaves in Texas. The tidings of freedom reached slaves gradually as individual plantation owners read the proclamation to their bondsmen over the months following the end of the war. The news elicited an array of personal celebrations, some of which have been described in The Slave Narratives of Texas (1974). The first broader celebrations of Juneteenth were used as political rallies and to teach freed African Americanqv about their voting rights. Within a short time, however, Juneteenth was marked by festivities throughout the state, some of which were organized by official Juneteenth committees.