06/19/2025
Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, but also a reminder that liberation didn’t happen all at once.
Even after the Emancipation Proclamation, the road to true freedom was long, winding, and hard-won.
Today, we’re honoring that journey through three powerful NPS sites:
🚂 Harriet Tubman National Historical Park (New York)
Explore the home, church, and legacy of one of the most fearless freedom fighters in American history. Tubman risked her life to lead others out of slavery, and spent her later years fighting for civil rights and women’s suffrage.
🛡️ Fort Monroe National Monument (Virginia)
Known as “Freedom’s Fortress,” this was the first place where enslaved people were granted refuge during the Civil War. It’s also near where the first enslaved Africans arrived in 1619, making it both a beginning and a turning point in Black American history.
📚 Frederick Douglass National Historic Site (Washington, DC)
Tour the home of the legendary abolitionist who escaped slavery, advised presidents, and pushed America to live up to its ideals of liberty and justice for all.
Freedom didn’t arrive in a single moment, but in the relentless determination of people like Tubman, Douglass, and those who found sanctuary at Fort Monroe.
