An annual Juneteenth celebration brought hundreds of visitors to Bernice Allridge Park on Saturday to celebrate freedom.
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee, or Emancipation Day—and often called the country’s second Independence Day — commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. The news that enslaved people would be free didn’t reach Galveston, Texas, until June 19, 1865 — more than two years after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
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