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DESCRIPTION:Join Grace Arms for our Juneteenth Celebrate Freedom festival. This event 
 is to inform, educate and unify the community through music, entertainment 
 and community engagement.\n\nDate & Time: Sat, June 19, 2021 @ 11:30 AM – 
 4:30 PM PDT\n\nLocation: Grace Arms, 3415 Oakley Rd, Antioch, CA 
 94509\n\nRSVP: 
 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/grace-arms-of-antioch-juneteenth-celebration-of-freedom-free-tickets-151886240835\n\nPlease 
 follow COVID safety protocols.\n\n\nHISTORY OF 
 JUNETEENTH\n\nhttps://www.gracearmsofantioch.org/juneteenth\n\nWhat is 
 Juneteeth?\n\nJuneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the 
 end of slavery in the United States. Though the Emancipation Proclamation 
 was given by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the beginning of the end of slavery 
 wouldn’t be recognized until some-time later - June 19, 1865.\n\nThe 
 Juneteenth Freedom Festival exists to share the history of slavery and to 
 memorialize its ending. We honor the sacrifice of our ancestors & share the 
 cultural heritage of slaves and their descendants through entertainment, 
 art, education, and an ever-present, always-developing sense of 
 community.\n\nIt may not be a national holiday, but Juneteenth marks a 
 major milestone for  America.  Juneteenth is a holiday celebrated on June 
 19 that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Across the 
 country, the day is marked with events and parades. \n\nStart of Juneteenth 
 Celebration\n\nOn June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger came to 
 Galveston, Texas, to inform a reluctant community that President Abraham 
 Lincoln two years earlier had freed the slaves and to press locals to 
 comply with his directive. \n\nWhy did it take so long for the news to get 
 to Texas? \n\nThere is no one reason why there was a 2½-year delay in 
 letting Texas know about the abolition of slavery in the United States, 
 according to Juneteenth.com. The historical site said some accounts place 
 the delay on a messenger who was murdered on his way to Texas with the 
 news, while others say the news was deliberately withheld.\n\nDespite the 
 delay, slavery did not end in Texas overnight, according to an article by 
 Henry Louis Gates Jr. originally posted on The Root. Gates said after New 
 Orleans fell, many slavers traveled to Texas with their slaves to escape 
 regulations enforced by the Union Army in other states.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/29/18842827.php
SUMMARY:Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom Festival in Antioch
LOCATION:Grace Arms, 3415 Oakley Rd, Antioch, CA 94509\n\nPlease follow COVID safety 
 protocols. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/29/18842827.php
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