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June 19th, 2021

Juneteenth is Today, June 19 Juneteenth is today,  Saturday, June 19.  Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. On that date in 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform the last remaining enslaved persons that they were free, over two years after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, and two […]

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Posted: June 19th, 2021 under Councilmember Herbold, COVID-19, Human Services, Parks and Recreation, Proclamations, Public Health, Seattle Public Utliities, Transportation.
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June 19th, 2020

Today is Juneteenth On Wednesday, I joined my City Council colleagues in unanimously approving a proclamation recognizing today, June 19th, as Juneteenth.  Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved African-Americans in Texas first learned that slavery had been abolished two and a half years earlier by the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.   The first Juneteenth celebration […]

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Posted: June 19th, 2020 under Councilmember Herbold, COVID-19, Education, Office of Police Accountability, Parks and Recreation, Proclamations, Public Health, Transportation.
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