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Norwood Juneteenth Soulfood Dinner and Flag Presentation
Come join us to recognize Juneteenth in Norwood, Saturday, June 14, 2025, at 12 noon.
New Vision Missionary Baptist Church, 3851 Montgomery Road, Norwood, Ohio 45212. Freedom Day, Soul food Café Dinner. Soul food Dinner is $20. Dinner starts at noon. You are also able to pre-pay for your dinner. Please check out the Norwood Juneteenth Facebook page for event details. Please also join us at 1p for the Juneteenth Flag presentation. Guest speaker with be Minister Cynthia Caldwell. Bring your friends and family and let’s recognize and rejoice in our community.
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. The holiday's name, first used in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth", referring to June 19, 1865, the day when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War. In the Civil War period, slavery came to an end in various areas of the United States at different times. Many enslaved Southerners escaped, demanded wages, stopped work, or took up arms against the Confederacy of slave states. In January 1865, Congress finally proposed the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution for national abolition of slavery. By June 1865, almost all enslaved were freed by the victorious Union Army, or abolition laws in some of the remaining U.S. states. When the national abolition amendment was ratified in December, the remaining enslaved in Delaware and in Kentucky were freed.
