On Friday, a Tulsa woman performed some of the Harriet Tubman story at the historic Ashton Villa in Galveston, TX.
That's the site of the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Rebecca Jimerson performed the montage on behalf of the UTMB Juneteenth project and the Galveston Historical Society.
Jimerson was featured in Friday evening's NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.
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