June 12th, 2013
San Marcos to be featured on KLRU ‘Juneteenth’ program

An historical marker commemorates Blacksmith Ulysses Cephas, whose home on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive is being restored by the city as a cultural center in the Dunbar Historic District (City of San Marcos photo).

STAFF REPORT

Austin public television station KLRU will feature the African-American experience in San Marcos this week during the station’s Juneteenth Jamboree.

Among its features, the 25-minute episode will discuss the city’s developing Dunbar Heritage and Museum District and San Marcos native Eddie Durham, a jazz innovator and electric guitar pioneer.

The program will be aired on Thursday at 8 p.m. on KLRU; Saturday, June 15 at 12:30 p.m. on KLRU Q, and Sunday, June 16 at 1 p.m. on KLRU. The program also will stream at: http://www.klru.org/juneteenth/.

Juneteenth recognizes the abolishing of slavery in Texas, which took place on June 19, 1865, more than two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.