Teens Commemorate Civil Rights at Juneteenth March
Neighborhood House teens marched with over 100 other youths in a city-wide civil rights commemoration, as part of Milwaukee’s 2013 annual Juneteenth celebration. Drummers, dancers, a few civil war re-enacters, and Miss Juneteenth herself were all on parade on this beautiful June morning. Juneteenth refers to the date June 19, 1865, when slaves in Texas first learned…