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GU272 Descendants Association Juneteenth Celebration (virtual)
About this event
The GU272 Descendants Association's free 2025 Virtual Juneteenth celebration will discuss the history and future of freedom - how newly freed African American families reunited during Reconstruction and how their descendants can preserve access to their ancestral stories.
Learn more about the lectures and register here - spots are limited!
You will receive the Zoom link information 24 hours before the event.
Our featured speakers include Judith Giesberg, Ph.D., Robert M. Birmingham Chair in the Humanities Professor, Department of History at Villanova University, Director of The Last Seen Project and author of Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost Families; Jessica Dorman, Ph.D., Director of Publications at The Historic New Orleans Collection; Christopher Smothers, Historian, Genealogist, and Historical Justice Advocate; and more.
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