GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — This Thursday is Juneteenth, marking the day when the last enslaved people in the United States, located in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free.
The news came on June 19, 1865, about two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
Here are ways West Michigan communities are commemorating Juneteenth’s 160th anniversary:
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