June Juneteenth celebration-When were you aware?

Not until this year, and I lived in Texas for three years in the 90s.

I'm in the northeast and also only learned in the last 10 years and not in school. And speaking of whitewashed educations, how bad is it that my son (26) and I learned about the Tulsa massacre from a comic book TV adaptation (Watchmen) instead of in school?

I'm Canadian and heard about it this week for the first time. I feel like I would have at the very least a vague recollection of it had I ever heard of it before since today is my Mom's birthday.

Southern California, learned about it in 3rd grade I think (maybe 4th), then again in Jr High, again in High School and again at University (history class and a race/racism class)

For as long as I can remember, my town had has a Juneteenth celebration. This year was cancelled due to covid. It was a big party with performances of dance and music and yummy food.

I will admit I was 19 before I made the actual connection between the festival and what Juneteenth actually meant thanks to the history classes I was taking for my major at the time.

ETA- DH grew up in a very white town. No Juneteenth celebration of any kind. He didn't realize what it was until recently.

I voted for the last ten years, but it has been much longer. I taught American history in the 80's and beyond, so it was something that was always discussed. My classrooms were filled with white, African American, Pacific Islander, Latino kiddos and more. I tried to find books and articles on lots of different races and cultures. Our history books mostly covered mostly the accomplishments of white men, but there were always a few things about women and minorities but there was never really enough.

Not an American. Hadn't heard about it until just a few years ago and I'm quite informed about US things as a foreigner. Still, this had flown under the radar for me.

College so late 1980s?

as for where? I grew up first overseas and then in New England - college was Massachusetts. I'm in Florida now after a few years in Arizona.

I've never seen/been to/had first hand knowledge of Juneteenth though - just an awareness about its origins and that some communities celebrate the day. To the best of my knowledge, I've never lived near a celebration (and I'll now google to confirm that)

edited - apparently there is one being held in the nearest town to me on Saturday...but unless I had googled, I wouldn't have known that. It hasn't been posted on the local FB group I follow.

I studied the civil war a lot at work in the early 1980's.. and learned about it then. lived in the west all my life.

I did not choose any options.  I am 63 years old so while I did not grow up knowing about it in a way that stuck in my head (I believe it was briefly taught in school) but I know since I have lived in the south for the past 30+ years I have known about it.  Sadly, both my husband and I always think it is June 15th.  Don't know why that is stuck in our heads.

I know I have not known about it my entire life, but I've known much longer than 10 years.

DH is from Missouri and was a history minor in college and never heard of this until the last few days. I grew up in NC and never heard of this part of history either.

...............  Raised S Cal. and now in WA

I selected "I am not American, so I don't know about this."

The first time I heard about Juneteenth was right here at 2 Peas is the last week or so, when people were talking about trump holding a rally on the same date as Juneteenth. I then went and googled to find out what it was.

Oh, and apparently trump is now claiming credit for making Juneteenth . 


Sadly, he's probably not entirely wrong..... after all, I'd never heard of it until the outrage about him holding a rally on that date.