In memory of Marilyn Griffith Turner, Juneteenth of the Carolinas, first Chairperson who served tirelessly from 1997 until her transition in April 2006. She was instrumental in helping to educate the Charlotte community and beyond about the significance of Juneteenth as a part of African American history. "But if this part of our history could be told in such a way that those chains of the past, those shackles that physically bound us together against our wills could, in the telling, become spiritual links that willingly bind us together now and into the future - then that painful Middle Passage could become, ironically, a positive connecting line to all of us whether living inside or outside the continent of Africa..."
- Marilyn Griffith Turner
