Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who is known as the author of the Juneteenth federal holiday, returned to the historic building to celebrate with the community.
"It is a time for reflection and to see what we have been through as a race of people," said Dr. James Burton, Chairman of the Board of Deacons at the church."Just like the Jews have their Passover and things of that nature. This is our time. This is our Passover, when we were freed and when we left."
On June 19, 1865, the last group of formerly enslaved people learned of their emancipation in Galveston, Texas. The first Juneteenth celebration was held a year after that. The Antioch Missionary Baptist Church carries a lot of historic significance, not just as the city's first African American Baptist church, but where members came together in 1882 to purchase 10 acres of land now known as Emancipation Park. It served as a location for the Black community to celebrate Juneteenth.
"I did it out of passion and compassion. It was one of the original sins. It was brutal and it just came to me that throughout history, as a little girl growing up, no one taught me about slave history. No one taught me about the brutality of slavery," said Jackson Lee."Juneteenth should be a day of doing and knowing. It should be a day of repair and healing."
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