Attendees watch a performance by the A List Dance team at the Juneteenth Village Fest in Douglass Park on Sunday. June 19 marks the date in 1865 that the last enslaved people in the United States learned they had been freed, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)
Seccoyah Dale didn’t get the chance to celebrate Juneteenth growing up and didn’t know about the significance of the date until she became an adult.
But now that it is celebrated across the nation as a federal holiday, she wants to make sure her children know the history behind the festivities.
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