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Emancipation Proclamation

  • Fourteen summers ago I happened upon a festive gathering in a strip mall parking lot on H Street and Owens Avenue. My first experience with Juneteenth happened to be the city’s first large-scale commemoration of June 19, 1865, the day slaves in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom.
  • Nevada is the 39th state to recognize June 19th in the annuls of American History. It was June 19th in 1865 when the last slaves in the south were…