Highlighting Juneteenth In honor of the 250th birthday of our great country, the Republican Party of Kenosha County is pleased to kick off the festivities by honoring outstanding Americans who helped make our nation great. Each of the people in our “Voices of Freedom” series has an individual news post full of additional information ready for you to explore. Robert S. Abbott (1870-1940) Lawyer, Editor, Publisher Marian Anderson (1897-1993) Musician George Washington Carver (1
Highlighting Juneteenth Robert S. Abbott (1870-1940) Lawyer, Editor, Publisher “No greater glory, no greater honor, is the lot of man departing than a feeling deep in his heart that the world is a better place for his having lived.” Robert Sengstacke Abbott was born in Georgia, to parents who were Gulla-speaking freedmen from the Georgia Sea Islands. His father died when he was an infant, and he was raised by his mother, Flora, and his step-father, John Sengstacke, a mixed-ra
Highlighting Juneteenth Marian Anderson (1897-1993) Musician “The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.” Marian Anderson was born in Philadelphia. Her father, John Anderson, was a retailer; her mother, Annie Rucker Anderson, a former schoolteacher. Along with her parents and her two younger sisters, Marian attended Union Baptist Church in Philadelphia, where, from the age of six, she sang: first in
