Juneteenth is short for June Nineteenth. The Juneteenth holiday commemorates the day that news of emancipation reached Galveston, Texas in 1865 - two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth was originally celebrated in Texas and is now celebrated nationwide in the United States. Juneteenth became an official federal holiday on June 17th, 2021.
On April 20, 2022 the CCC Board of Education issued a proclamation recognizing Juneteenth as an official holiday of the college.
Learn more about and celebrate Juneteenth with events in our community and by checking out CCC Library's curated lists of print books, eBooks and videos!
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We acknowledge that the Clackamas Community College campuses reside on the traditional homelands of the Clackamas, Cascades, and Tumwater bands of Chinooks, as well as the Tualatin and Pudding River bands of Kalapuya and the Northern Molalla people. They lived and prospered by maintaining strong cultural ties to the land, and through wise management of resources. As signers of the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855, they were removed from their homelands to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation where they became members of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde. Please join us in taking this opportunity to thank and honor the original caretakers of this land, their lives, and their descendants that live on as Tribal members today, still carrying on the traditions and cultures of their ancestors.
We acknowledge that our nation has benefited and profited from the free enslaved labor of Black people. We honor the legacy of the African diaspora and Black life, and the knowledge, skills, and human spirit that persevere in spite of violence and White supremacy.
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