2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Adults

Juneteenth Lecture: A Reflection on Social Justice and Emancipation (Zoom)

The East Brunswick Public Library, New Brunswick Public Library, and Matawan-Aberdeen Public Library will be hosting a Zoom lecture in honor of Juneteenth, a holiday celebrated annually on June 19th that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people of Texas, then the most remote region of the Confederacy, finally learned slavery had been abolished and that they were free.  Dr.