Web13 Jun 2024 · Latta Plantation official defends controversial event once scheduled for Juneteenth Under pressure, the historic site was forced to cancel a June 19 event … Web16 Jun 2024 · June 19 is the annual celebration of Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. The event description read: "Come out to Historic...
North Carolina: Museum manager defends canceled Juneteenth event - WXII
Web15 Jun 2024 · Ian Campbell, site manager of Latta Historic Plantation in Huntersville, defends the "Kingdom Coming" program that was canceled Friday after complaints of racial insensitivity by Charlotte and Mecklenburg County officials. HUNTERSVILLE — The manager of a historical museum in North Carolina is defending himself from criticism that … Web25 Jun 2024 · After more than a century and a half of underappreciation, the emancipation celebration known as Juneteenth is bringing out the regional differences in various ways, some of which make me manifest beauty
Mecklenburg County to reopen Latta Plantation site in 2024
Web12 Jun 2024 · In what appears to have been an attempt to get with the times, Latta Plantation in Huntersiville, North Carolina, planned an event for Juneteenth — the holiday celebrating June 19th, the day the last slaves were told they had been freed. You are probably thinking "Excuse me? A freaking plantation planning a Juneteenth event? Web17 Jun 2024 · A controversial event had been planned on June 19, or Juneteenth. Mecklenburg County owns the 1,400-acre Latta Nature Preserve in Huntersville, and leased the historic 1800s-era home and ... Web12 Jun 2024 · Historic Latta Plantation refused to apologize Saturday for a controversial program whose racist Juneteenth event description promised to tell the story of “white refugees” and defeated... manifest based on true story