JUNETEENTH 2022
Join us in downtown Union, South Carolina on June 18, 2022.
The UCCRP is hosting our second Juneteenth Remembrance and Celebration event from 1-5pm on June 18, 2022.
Remembrance: Lynching Victims Memorial & Marker Rededication
1-2pm
213 West Main St, Union SC
JUNETEENTH will begin with a program to remember the members of the Black community who lost their lives due to racial violence and lynching. We acknowledge we must continue to bring the history of lynching to light in our communities.
We are remembering and honoring the victims of lynching in Union County through a rededication of the historical markers we installed in 2021 and a public viewing of the documentary video about last year’s soil collection ceremony.
Celebration: It Takes a Village
2-5pm
Main St, from S Enterprise St to S Pinckney St, Union SC
We will continue the day by recognizing the resilience of the Black community in Union through celebrating the significant national holiday of Juneteenth.
Join us for a celebration down Main Street featuring vendors in our FHHEEEL villages, food, entertainment, music, activities for kids and adults, and participating Main St merchants!
“It Takes a Village”
The theme of JUNETEENTH is “It Takes a Village.” “It Takes a Village” is inspired by the concept of how villages form a community that cares for one another through various aspects of shared life such as education, health, housing, food, employment, economic development, and life skills. We seek to celebrate and connect the Black community in Union through thematic ‘villages’, represented in the FHHEEEL acronym.
Get Involved
Become a vendor
Are you, your organization, non-profit or business interested in participating in JUNETEENTH as one of our vendors? Please click the eventbrite link below to register in one of the villages.
Become a sponsor
Not able to join JUNETEENTH as a vendor? You can still help further our mission by becoming an event sponsor! All proceeds go to planning, conduct, and operations of the event.
Volunteer
Volunteer to become a Juneteenth Ambassador and help us set up, break down, or organize on the day of the event!
Attend the event
Let us know you are planning on attending by visiting our event’s Facebook page and clicking on “going". Invite your family and friends to join.
“Juneteenth continues to be important, not just because it marks the end of slavery, but because it becomes a ritualized, political holiday that tells and retells the story of Black people's ongoing struggle in a nation that's so invested in forgetting.”
— Jarvis Givens, historian