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Booker T. Washington National Monument To Host Juneteenth 2022

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By David and Kay Scott - June 6th, 2022

Ranger Brittany Webb Lane greets visitors to Booker T. Washington National Monument/David and Kay Scott

Booker T. Washington National Monument in Virginia is scheduled to present Juneteenth 2022 on Saturday, June 18, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.  Juneteenth, short for June nineteenth, has long served as a celebration date for the effective end of slavery in the United States. The date became a federal holiday in 2021.

The national monument’s celebration of freedom will include seven musical acts including Larnell Starkey and the Spiritual Seven, a well-known Virginia-based group that has performed gospel music for five decades. National Park Service Ranger Brittany Webb Lane suggests visitors bring blankets and portable chairs for lawn seating. The day’s program will also include a ranger-led “Tears of Freedom” tour.

The monument is on the 209-acre site where one of America’s great success stories was born and set free. Booker T. Washington, born to a slave cook and raised in an era when slaves were prohibited from learning to read and write, took charge of building Tuskegee Normal School (now, Tuskegee Institute), became an advisor to politicians including the U.S. presidents, and received an honorary degree from Harvard University.

The site includes the reconstructed kitchen cabin where Booker lived with his mother and two siblings, other reconstructed farm buildings, a heritage garden and a hiking trail.  Booker T. Washington National Monument is located 22 miles southeast of Roanoke, Virginia.

The reconstructed kitchen cabin where Booker lived with his mother and two siblings/David and Kay Scott

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