Upcoming Fayetteville history museum to hold lecture on Juneteenth in North Carolina

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — An upcoming history museum in Fayetteville will hold a lecture in honor of Juneteenth, representatives said.

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The NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction is hosting the Seventh Annual Hari Jones Memorial Lecture at 7 p.m. on June 15. It will be held at Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church on 217 Murchison Road across from Fayetteville State University, according to the museum.

According to the museum, the lecture is free and open to the public.

The museum said the lecture will be given by Adrienne Nirdé, the director of the NC African American Heritage Commission.

Entitled “The Search For Freedom: Juneteenth in North Carolina”, Nirdé’s lecture will tell the story of enslaved people who sought freedom for generations in many diverse ways.

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“North Carolina’s liberation story is complex, it took place over time and was shaped by the realities of the Civil War,” the museum said in a statement.
 
“We will work to remember, and through that remembrance, to come to a better understanding of North Carolina’s ‘Juneteenth’ story — or rather, how liberation and emancipation took shape across our state from 1861 through the early years of Reconstruction,” the statement continues.

The event is the museum’s eight Juneteenth commemoration and seventh in the memory of Hari Jones, a historian and the assistant director and curator at the African American Civil War Freedom Foundation and Museum in Washington, DC.

The NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction, which is being built in Fayetteville’s Arsenal Park on 215 Myrover Street,, is scheduled to open in 2028.

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