Sudbury for Racial and Social Justice (S4RSJ) and Sudbury Valley Trustees (SVT) invite you to take a self-guided walk through Memorial Forest on June 19, in honor of Juneteenth. We have mapped a 2.5-mile route at the property in recognition of the two-and-a-half long years it took to notify enslaved people in Texas that they were free.

Get the map: Download a brochure with trail map of the 2.5-mile route. Memorial Forest is open to the public dawn to dusk.

Access the map on your phone:  Follow the trail route via GPS and learn more about the special habitats along the way through a series of waypoints during your hike. The All Trails app has a free version that you can view and follow the route on your phone.

Learn more about Juneteenth from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture

• The historical legacy of Juneteenth (brief article)
• Juneteenth: Connecting the Historic to the Now (49 min video)
• Jubilee, Juneteenth and Thirteenth (43 min video) This is a local conversation, produced by the Boston Globe, about a documentary that portrays the influential but often overlooked role that African Americans in Boston and Massachusetts played in the events that led to the abolition of slavery in the United States.