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June 1 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
June 19th is Freedom Day
On June 19, 1865 — over 2 years after President Lincoln declared all enslaved persons free — Major General Gordon Granger and Union Army troops marched to Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation and free the last enslaved Black Americans in Texas.
The Santa Cruz Juneteenth annual celebration will be held June 15th at the
London Nelson Center.
