Happy Juneteenth and Emancipation Day Celebrations

18thVirginia

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Several of our community groups celebrated Juneteenth and Emancipation Day today with a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation on the steps of our county courthouse. We've had several threads and lots of information from AndyHall about the origins of Juneteenth, the day the Emancipation Proclamation was read in Galveston on June 19, 1865.

Here's a video from a previous thread that explains the origins of Juneteenth:

 
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