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Juneteenth 2024

Juneteenth_Flyer2024 Informational: Juneteenth, short for “June Nineteenth,” is sometimes referred to as Emancipation Day. It commemorates the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 to inform and ensure that enslaved Black people were finally freed following the end of the Civil War. The troops’ arrival occurred two and a half years after … Read more