Where to Celebrate Juneteenth This Year in Atlanta

Celebrated by Black Americans since the latter part of the 19th century, Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.Sometimes referred to as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, June 19, 1865 marks the date Union general Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to declare the end of enslavement there, despite the Emancipation Proclamation being issued two years earlier by President Abraham Lincoln.

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