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Special guest, Dr. Joyce-Zoe Farley
Event Timing: Thursday, June 16 6:00 pm
Event Address: Irondale Library 105 20th Street South Irondale, AL 35210
Contact us at (205) 951-1415 or Librarian@IrondaleLibrary.org
Dr. Joyce-Zoe Farley will share the history of Juneteenth from the Emancipation Proclamation to the efforts to get it declared a national holiday, to Governor Ivey's recognition of Juneteenth as Freedom Day in Alabama.
In 2021, Juneteenth became the first federal holiday approved since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.
Dr. Farley is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Public History and African American Studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has dual appointments in the History department and the African American Studies Program.