View Comments Juneteenth — when Emancipation Day is celebrated nationally — is taking a back seat in Florida to May 20, the day the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in Tallahassee. To honor the occasion, The Village Square, Leon County and the Tallahassee Democrat are partnering to reintroduce the importance of Florida's Emancipation Day during the annual Created Equal event. Florida Emancipation Day celebrates the day Union troops declared the Emancipation Proclamation effective across the state, thus signaling the freedom of enslaved people specifically across Florida. Though s...