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Join the Cape Ann Museum at Gloucester City Hall to celebrate Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Flag raising with comments from city officials and CAM staff outside City Hall.

9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Community reading of Frederick Douglass’s What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Following the reading the public is invited to stay for a facilitated discussion to discuss the speech and their experience reading it. Kyrouz Auditorium, Gloucester City Hall

We hope that you can join us for this community gathering to reflect on important history and the work that still needs to be done.