The National Juneth Museum employed at Fort Worth made a big donation this week, causing it to get closer to the target of $ 70 million.
The museum announced a donation of $ 2 million from Fort Worth-based Burlington Northern Santa Fail Railway, which would have naming rights for the museum’s share.
With Tuesday’s announcement, the museum has completed half the route of its capital campaign. A groundbreaking is planned at the end of this year, and the museum is ready to open in 2026.
Once it opens, the museum will share the story of both slavery and liberation, discovering the big topic of global freedom, exploring the story of both slavery and liberation. The plans include the gallery, a 250-seat amphitheater, a food hall with emerging chefs and a business incubator.
Museum officials have said that the museum will serve as a cultural center in Fort Worth and the historic south of the city, where the museum will be built on the corner of Rosedel Street and Evans Avenue.
Jarad Howard, president of the museum, said, “The museum would be a physical example of how to apply a culturally attractive learning center.”
In 1865, Junethe recognized the day that the union soldiers arrived at Galveston, to enslave their freedom, about 2 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the liberation announcement.
Black Americans, especially in Texas, have celebrated the day for decades, but in recent years have increased interest in juggling, especially after George Floid’s death and resulting protests over police cruelty.
Opal Lee, known as “Juanethin’s grandmother”, celebrated a holiday in Marshall and later in Fort Worth, celebrating a holiday with his family and a picnic with his family. In 1939, when she was 12 years old, a crowd of 500 white dominations set her family’s house on fire and destroyed her. Lee and his family were forced to escape.
That incident turned him into a career as a teacher and worker. In 2016, Lee made his way to Washington, DC from Fort Worth, taking 2 to -year representing in many cities, for the news of liberation to reach Galveston to represent 2 to years.
In 2021, along with Lee, the President Joe Biden signed a bill in the law, in which Junethth was declared a national holiday. Lee was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize the following year.
In a program celebrating Juntenthvent in 2023, Lee said that honesty and education about the past of this country is important.
“We cannot hide the truth. Good, bad, ugly, ”he said. “They need to know.”
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