Mothers Celebrates Juneteenth

Charlene “DeCharlene” Williams
Jan. 13, 1943 – May 20, 2018 (photo credit: Seattle Medium)

This day in Texas in 1865, 250,000 slaves were finally freed, two years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

As mothers we are thankful to the women who shared the word of Juneteenth and encouraged the spread of Jubilee.

We want to honor the late DeCharlene Williams, who by the way of Texas, brought Juneteenth to us here in the state of Washington.

Today we offer prayers of safety. Juneteenth is a day of remembrance of what it must have been like on that day to realize the days of being property were over.