Juneteenth 2021: Events, things to do to celebrate in Louisville
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 reason why there was a 2-plus-year delay in letting Texas know about the abolition of slavery in the U...
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