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Crowd at Texas Juneteenth celebration with banners, drums, and food in a community gathering

Texas Juneteenth Emancipation Celebrations

Each year, communities across Texas come together to celebrate Juneteenth, a day that marks the formal announcement of emancipation in 1865. This historic observance began when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston to inform enslaved African Americans that the Civil War had ended and they were free, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth quickly became a day of

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