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Thursday, June 15, 2006
Juneteenth in DC
The DC Juneteenth Celebration and Music Festival commemorates the anniversary of the day, June 19, 1865, when Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, to establish the Emancipation Proclamation as law in the last state of Confederate rebellion – two and a half years after the date of the Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863). The 2nd annual DC Juneteenth event will celebrate the end of slavery with an afternoon of music, speakers, remembrance and fellowship hosted by Dr. Jared Ball (of Blackademics on WPFW).
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