Community Juneteenth celebration returns to Shelby County
After a lapse in local community- wide observations, a Juneteenth celebration was held Thursday, June 19 at Hicks Mortuary in Center.Although now a federally-recognized holiday, Juneteenth had its beginnings in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in the city as military administrator and posted notices that all enslaved persons were now free.The f...
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