Multimedia Reporting (Bradford-Summer)

The Douglas County Juneteenth Celebration welcomes Clinton Lake Museum, a registered Underground Railroad facility, to its line-up. Both the museum and Juneteenth officials are thrilled to add the museum to the celebration.

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The Juneteenth celebration offered three short Underground Railroad tours throughout the day on June 17. The short tours gave visitors a historical perspective of Douglas County's Underground Railroad sites. In the future, daylong tours will be offered.

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Judy Sweets and Tolly Wildcat, members of the Underground Railroad Association, provided a tour of sites in Lawrence that were part of the Underground Railroad. The tour was in conjunction with the Juneteenth celebration, a commemoration of the end of slavery.

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The Juneteenth 3 on 3 basketball tournament on Friday brought an all ages crowd to the Lawrence Community Building as a part of the festival's celebration of the ending of slavery.

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From her spot behind a large collection of brightly-colored church hats, Lisa Adame, Topeka shop-owner, listened to a child’s voice fill Burcham Park situated in Northeast Lawrence, at this year’s annual Juneteenth Festival Saturday.

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The Underground Railroad Association of Douglas County hopes to transform Fire Station no. 4 and former Grover Barn site into an Underground Railroad museum.

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The Underground Railroad Association of Douglas County has plans to convert the Grover barn and fire station into a Underground Railroad museum, but a request from the City Commssion for additional market analysis has pushed back their plans.

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A two week Juneteenth celebration went on at the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence recently. Children took part in several activities honoring the holiday and learning about its importance.

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Guest panel members speak at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics about the importance of education for young people.

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The Juneteenth weeklong celebration held it's three on three basketball tournament Friday. The day kept kids and adults dribbling up and down the court, but committee members and coordinators never lost focus on the true significance of the fun event.

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Lawrence residents Judy Sweets and Tolly Wildcat hosted a tour of sites on Lawrence's historical Underground Railroad on June 17. The tour served as publicity for the musuem projects that Sweets and Wildcat, together with the Underground Railroad Association of Douglas County, hope to complete with the help of Lawrence government and other residents.

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This year's Juneteenth celebration emphasized education. Many of the activities centered on children, including an essay and mural contest. Participants in the week's events included the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence, as well as members of the community.

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Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery by emphasizing the progress minority education has made in the United States. But, though the progress is evident, Lawrence public schools still have a long way to go.

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The Boys & Girls Club in Lawrence designed murals and posters for the Juneteenth ceebration.

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Boys and Girls Club children enter posters, murals and essays to display their appreciation of freedom and the African American culture as a whole.

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Bright smiles, and a craving to learn, were the prerequisites for the children who participated in the mural paintings at the Juneteenth events last week.

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Children of Lawrence's Boys and Girls Club learn the true meaning of Juneteenth and freedom.

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People of all ages gathered at the Lawrence Community Building to celebrate Juneteenth with a basketball tournament. The event was aimed at bringing the community closer together.

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