Community members will celebrate Juneteenth with a Ward 7 parade and picnic, in coordination with Dr. Opal Lee’s “Opal’s Walk for Freedom”, to commemorate the day Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and declared the end of slavery.
Community members will celebrate Juneteenth with a Ward 7 parade and picnic, in coordination with Dr. Opal Lee’s “Opal’s Walk for Freedom”, to commemorate the day Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and declared the end of slavery.
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