NEWSTALK 860 » Juneteenth http://ksfa860.com Fri, 24 May 2013 19:59:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Lufkin Juneteenth Celebration Starts Saturday http://ksfa860.com/lufkin-juneteenth-celebration-starts-saturday/ http://ksfa860.com/lufkin-juneteenth-celebration-starts-saturday/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:54:19 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=72801 Juneteenth -- June 19th -- is the anniversary of the official ending of slavery in the United States.  It was on that date in 1865 that Union Army General Gordon Granger landed in Galveston, and proclaimed the Emancipation Proclamation that abolished slavery and freed the slaves in the 10 Confederate states.

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