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Juneteenth Parade 2024
Juneteenth Parade 2024

Sat, Jun 15

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14th & Comal

Juneteenth Parade 2024

oin the Huston-Tillotson International Alumni Association: Austin Chapter as participants in the Austin Historical Juneteenth Parade HT is black Austin History.

Time & Location

Jun 15, 2024, 8:00 AM

14th & Comal

About The Event

, also known as Juneteenth

"Freedom Day" or "Emancipation Day"

commemorates the announcement of the

abolition of slavery in Texas.

On September 22nd, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation effectively ending slavery on January 1st, 1863,

however, the Proclamation had little effect in the State of Texas until two and a half years later. It was on June 19th, 1865, that Union General Gordon Granger read General Orders No. 3 to the people of Galveston, Texas:

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