FOND DU LAC – Ebony Vision`s biggest event of the year is fast approaching.The 16th annual Juneteenth celebration will kick off at 11 a.m. June 15 and fill Buttermilk Creek Park, 700 S. Park Ave., with live entertainment, food, family-friendly activities, community vendors and raffles that support the organization.
Juneteenth celebrates the abolishment of slavery two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, according to Ebony Vision.
On June 19, 1865, about 2,000 Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas — which was still under Confederate control — and announced that the more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in the state were free by executive decree...
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