Iowa City Juneteenth Commemoration

Saturday, June 22, 2019

12:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Mercer Park: 2701 Bradford Dr, Iowa City

The Juneteenth Commemoration includes live performances by local musicians and artists, a health fair, food, vendors, games and activities for the whole family, and opportunities to win door prizes. This event is free and open to the public. 

Juneteenth is a historical event that commemorates June 19, 1865, the date in history when, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers sailed into Galveston, Texas, and read the order freeing the quarter-million slaves residing in the states.