5th Annual Juneteenth Celebration

Hebron’s fifth annual Juneteenth Celebration will be held on Saturday, June 20 from 12 - 3 pm. 

The program is being organized by members of the Peters Family, descendants of Cesar Peters, an enslaved man who lived and worked as a skilled laborer in Hebron and, with his wife Lois, raised a family. Their story of gaining freedom and purchasing property – and starting a legacy that continues today in the form of their descendants – is an important part of Hebron’s (and America’s) history. 

There will be singing, drumming and dance, storytelling, spoken word, children’s activities, soul food and dessert, and an opportunity to learn about the lives of Cesar Peters and his descendants. 

Juneteenth is a national holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It marks the day in 1865 when a Union Army general arrived in Texas with 2,000 soldiers and informed over 250,000 Black Americans enslaved in Texas that slavery had been abolished following the conclusion of the Civil War. This was two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had declared that “all persons held as slaves … henceforward shall be free.”