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Here are 10+ ways to celebrate, things to do for Juneteenth this year in Louisville Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal USA TODAY staff reads the Emancipation Proclamation for Juneteenth Replay Video UP NEXT Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, is a nationwide celebration to commemorate the emancipation from slavery.  Juneteenth, is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth," in honor of June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. ...

View Comments Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, is a nationwide celebration to commemorate the emancipation from slavery.  Juneteenth, is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth," in honor of June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger came to Galveston, Texas, to inform a reluctant community that President Abraham Lincoln two years earlier had freed the slaves and to press locals to comply with his directive.  There is no one re...