This year’s Juneteenth parade will be held on June 15, at 10 a.m. first kicking off at the Acres Home Multi-Purpose Center on W Montgomery Rd. and conclude at the iconic Greater Zion Missionary Church.
This week’s Insider Deals are so good you’ll want all of themParade. The celebrations give residents in the community a time to reflect, as well as celebrate the time when enslaved individuals learned they were free from the shackles of a peculiar, albeit, barbaric institution.
As a historian, and someone who graduated from high school in Acres Homes, I will strongly argue maintaining this connection to Juneteenth is vital not only to our American History butespecially. It marks the day in 1865 when enslaved individuals in Galveston discovered they had been freed - after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
“Juneteenth has so much more heritage as it has so much more richness,” she said. “A lot of the things that we’re doing, we can be free, we can show who we are and just make a difference in the community, and especially to let the younger people realize our fight.”
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