African-American Music Appreciation Month, 2019, 26313-26314 [2019-11976]

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[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 5, 2019)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 26313-26314]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-11976]



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Vol. 84

Wednesday,

No. 108

June 5, 2019

Part V





The President





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Proclamation 9897--African-American Music Appreciation Month, 2019



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                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 84 , No. 108 / Wednesday, June 5, 2019 / 
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Title 3--
The President

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                Proclamation 9897 of May 31, 2019

                
African-American Music Appreciation Month, 2019

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                Throughout American history, African-American music has 
                reflected our Nation's challenges and triumphs and has 
                always enriched our Nation's culture. During African-
                American Music Appreciation Month, we pay tribute to 
                the talented and inspiring African-American artists who 
                have given sound and voice to the full range of human 
                emotions through the blues, jazz, gospel, rock and 
                roll, rap, hip hop, and other genres.

                Last year, we lost one of our Nation's most beloved 
                African-American musicians, songwriters, and singers, 
                Aretha Franklin, the ``Queen of Soul.'' She was an 18-
                time Grammy Award winner and the first female artist 
                inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. During 
                her extraordinary career, Franklin infused her talent 
                and unmistakable style into gospel, rhythm and blues, 
                rock and roll, jazz, and even opera. Her songs are 
                treasures of the American music canon. A recipient of 
                the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National 
                Medal of Arts, Franklin's imprint on America's 
                soundscape is timeless. She will forever reign as a 
                luminary of African-American music.

                This month, we celebrate the countless contributions of 
                African-American singers, composers, and musicians, who 
                have influenced and shaped every genre and style of 
                music. They have turned universally shared emotions and 
                experiences of suffering, joy, passion, pain, faith, 
                injustice, and love into art that speaks to the heart 
                and spirit of any American. African-American music has 
                the power to encourage, inspire, and affect social 
                change. It transcends time, compelling generation after 
                generation to sing, dance, think, and feel, and it 
                endures in our culture, our history, our spirit, and 
                our collective national soul.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, do hereby proclaim June 2019 as African-
                American Music Appreciation Month. I call upon public 
                officials, educators, and all the people of the United 
                States to observe this month with appropriate 
                activities and programs that raise awareness and 
                appreciation of African-American music.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord two 
                thousand nineteen, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and forty-
                third.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 2019-11976
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