{"id":1069,"date":"2021-06-17T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.phillips66.com\/newsroom\/phillips-66-commemorates-juneteenth\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T14:27:42","slug":"phillips-66-commemorates-juneteenth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phillips66.com\/newsroom\/phillips-66-commemorates-juneteenth\/","title":{"rendered":"<span class=\"nowrap\">Phillips 66<\/span> commemorates Juneteenth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Phillips 66 Sweeny Refinery Maintenance Scheduler Jerry Manning grew up celebrating Juneteenth in his hometown of Bay City, Texas, not far from where the order to free all slaves reached the state 156 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt celebrates us as a people,\u201d Manning said of the June 19 holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. \u201cWe recognize hope, we recognize freedom and we recognize being citizens and a part of this great nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div style=\"position:relative;width:100%;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/phillips66.widen.net\/view\/video\/r32sqt1lul\/Sweeny-Juneteenth_v4.mp4?u=s3whhe\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was on June 19, 1865 \u2014 more than two months after the Civil War ended and more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had outlawed slavery in Confederate states \u2014 that Maj. 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