Juneteenth may be enjoying its most high-profile year ever. Observed on June 19, Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 that Union soldiers announced to enslaved African American people in Galveston, Texas that they'd been freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. (Of course, Abraham Lincoln made this decree in 1863, but word didn't reach these people for two whole years.) Upon hearing the news, enslaved people broke out in song, dance, prayer, and celebration.
Juneteenth celebrations became an annual event and spread to other states, where people commemorated the end of slavery with communal gatherings and even parades.
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