
Juneteenth Highlights
The BAAC sponsored Weston, Missouri’s fifth Juneteenth Heritage Jubilee in June of 2025. For 2025, the celebration will be Saturday, June 14th. Look for information on the BAAC, the Weston Historical Museum and Weston Chamber Facebook pages.
A link to a Video from the 2021 Juneteenth Heritage Jubilee: From Slavery to Freedom, a documentation of Weston, Missouri's first annual Juneteenth Heritage Jubilee, June 18, 2021.
By Phyllis Becker, Finding Freedom
BAAC to the FUTURE by way of the PAST
The Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign of Weston
The Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign is a standing committee of the Weston Historical Museum
VISION
To increase visibility in permanent exhibits, changing galleries, archives, and yearlong programming honoring Weston’s Black history and an annual Juneteenth Jubilee to enhance the value, legacy, and charm of historic Weston.
MISSION
To recognize, honor, and promote the lives and contributions of Weston’s resilient Black community, whose labor, talent, and industry resonate in historic Weston to this day.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
To say names, tell the stories, and meticulously excavate Weston’s Black lineage from obscurity, respectfully honor and reintroduce their lives and histories back into historic Weston.
CHARTER MEMBERS
Angela Hagenbach, Marilyn Carpenter, Rebecca Ehrich, Phyllis Becker, Sally Gaskill, Joyce Johnson
BAAC to the FUTURE by way of the PAST
Contact:
Weston Black – Baac1837@gmail.com
Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign of Weston
526 Main Street
Weston, MO 64098