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Celebrating Juneteenth Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, will be celebrated locally in various ways through this weekend. The city of Gainesville has sponsored what it billed as Journey to Juneteenth with programs all month long and special events leading up to the holiday on June 19. Event organizers say Journey to Juneteenth aims to honor the past and celebrate the present through community and connection. Juneteenth, which is observed on June 19 each year, is the oldest known celebration to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers led by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger reached Galveston, Texas, with the news that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were now free. Emancipation Day commemorates the end of slavery in Florida when on May 20, 1865, 11 days after the Civil War ended, Union General Edward M. McCook read the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee. Emancipation Day and Juneteenth took place two and  a half years

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