The Urban Missions Committee (UMC) is looking for volunteers to help with the annual City of Cambridge Juneteenth Parade on 6/19 (10am-3pm). Volunteers will provide hospitality for the event at the end of the parade (at Riverside Press Park) and hand out food, set up tables, clean up, etc.
The parade will begin at the Cambridge City Hall (795 Mass Ave) and will be ending at Riverside Press Park (343 River Street) where the City of Cambridge will have a few speakers, music, arts & crafts.
The City of Cambridge will sponsor a parade celebrating Juneteenth. Juneteenth is a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. In 1863, President Lincoln’s executive order, the Emancipation Proclamation, allowed all people to be free. However, not all enslaved people were actually free until June 19th, 1865, after the Civil War had ended and Union soldiers arrived in Texas.
This year’s parade will commemorate the first African American Fire Chief, Patrick H. Raymond, who was appointed as the chief of the Cambridge Fire Department in 1871.
