Denver (KDVR)-On June 17, 2021, then President Joe Biden signed the National Independence Day Law in Junitch in law, making him a national holiday.
With the signing, people throughout the United States will officially celebrate the freedom of the Black Society, but the Juntenth celebrations were not qualified for generations, and one of the largest began in Denver in the Five Points neighborhood.
The liberation declaration was signed on January 1, 1863, but it will take more than two years until the Union Army is going to Texas and announces the liberation of 250,000 people who are enslaved on June 19, 1865.
Today it is known as the birth of the Black Independence Day, with the first celebration in Junior in Texas on the same day in 1866, According to the US Capitol Association.
Black societies held marches, barbecue parties, and church events in honor.
After liberation, African Americans will soon discover a new ordeal in the form of Jim Crowe policies that have caused ethnic equality in the southern states, According to date. Policies have witnessed that African Americans are leaving the southern states.
Between 1916 and 1970, more than six million African American origin left the southern states, while it became known as great immigration. The great immigration included black society in Texas, which was followed by the Juntenth celebrations to their new homes.
Juntenth celebrations to the nearby southern states spread before they appeared in cities in the West as well, including Denver.
The Black Texas who moved to Denver has created their lives in the five points and the neighborhoods of Whiter. By the twenties of the twentieth century, more than 90 % of the black population in Denver resided in those neighborhoods, According to the Denver Library.
In the early fifties of the last century, Otha P. Rice, the owner of Rice’s Tap Room on Wilton Street and Texas Citizen, organized the first societal event in Denver. The festival lasted for more than a decade of its next development after “Bigharson” took place in 1966 through the Five Business Association.
Richardson converted to celebrate a multi -day celebration of music, sellers and marches.
The festival continued to grow and became one of the largest corpses celebration throughout the country by the eighties.
In 2025, five points of land are still hosting to celebrate Junycin in Denver. The celebration includes music festivals, sellers, marches, among many other events. However, the two -day celebration was reduced to one day after the companies’ shepherds withdrew the financing.