As June 19 — better known as Juneteenth — approaches, several celebrations are happening across the Baytown area to commemorate the anniversary of when enslaved people in Texas learned about the Emancipation Proclamation on June 19, 1865.
While the Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom in 1862, enforcement of the law did not come to Texas until two and a half years later, when General Gordon Granger of the Union Army announced it in Galveston.
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