Thomas Jefferson's Birthday Celebration Is Cancelled In VA
Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE Thomas Jefferson's city-sanctioned birthday celebration has been formally terminated. In a controversial dec...
Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE Thomas Jefferson's city-sanctioned birthday celebration has been formally terminated. In a controversial decision during a recent meeting of the Charlottesville, Virginia City Council, local leaders voted to remove an April 13 city holiday honoring former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, who was widely recognized as a scholar and scientist, an architecture and agricultural enthusiast – and, of course, a slave owner. Lawmakers decided to replace Jefferson's holiday with 'Freedom and Liberation Day,' on March 3 to commemorate the day enslaved African people in Charlottesville were officially emancipated in 1865 It's a pivotal part of American history that's been ignored and overlooked by some members of Charlottesville's Southern society.