Juneteenth Atlanta Parade & Music Festival

Even though the JAPMF celebration is specific to the emancipation of African descendants its message is for the continued freedom and economic prosperity of all people no matter what their race, creed, national origin or country is.

Every person in Georgia young and old should be introduced to the art and cultural expressions of one of the greatest events that occured in American history, the emancipation of African descendants. Juneteenth Atlanta, Parade & Music Festival (JAPMF) is a community based non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that does just that by providing cultural education, art collectives, literacy programs, inspirational exhibitions, historically significant plays, Independent films, musical expressions, African and African American dance collectives, as well as numerous classes and workshops specific to the continued progress and achievements of the descendants of emancipated Africans today known as African Americans.

JAPMF also puts a heavy 24|7|12 emphasis on the awareness and improvement of community conditions specifically in the Atlanta Metropolitan through collective community works, clean up, complete neighborhood renovations and community inspirational initiatives. It is possible to make the necessary improvements that our communities need to strive and JAPMF targets that success.
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Juneteenth Atlanta, Parade & Music Festival (JAPMF) is a community based non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that does just that by providing cultural education, art collectives, literacy programs, inspirational exhibitions, historically significant plays, Independent films, musical expressions, African and African American dance collectives, as well as numerous classes and workshops.

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Juneteenth is the event that all people and especially people of African descent should know as America’s second Independence Day celebration and the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States of America. It has also been called Freedom Day or Emancipation Day and rightly so.

Juneteenth represents the freedom that African Descendants stand on today!

African descendants were still trapped in the tyranny of enslavement on the country’s first “4th of July” in 1776, even though that period was set aside as Independence Day for all Americans the occasion did not include enslaved African descendants.

It took 89 years after 1776 for the second news of freedom that was specifically for African Americans to be announced in Southwest Texas, the last southern state in rebellion during the Civil War, where enslavement was still allowed. This was also more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln.
ABOUT JUNETEENTH

Celebrating One of The Greatest Events That Occured in American History! Emancipation of African Descendants Known Today as African Americans!
"The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."
The crowd of ex-enslaved Africans immediately began celebrating and to make it official selected a young girl to announce the freedom celebration. In her attempt at stating, We Free, June 19th, We Free! it sounded to the crowd that she was saying "Juneteenth" instead of "June 19th" and with the crowd repeating We Free, Juneteenth, We Free. Juneteenth became the continued and official title of the celebration.

The heart of the celebration is the reading of General Order #3 by a community elder. As the words are read, everyone listening can imagine how they sounded on June 19th, 1865 to the African/African American people of Galveston, Texas, who learned that day that they were legally free and had been so for years.