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Residents join for 2023 Juneteenth Freedom Festival

  • MIKE CONLEY
  • Jun 19, 2023
  • Jun 19, 2023 Updated Jul 24, 2024
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McDowell County’s second annual Juneteenth celebration took place last weekend.

This is the first year that Juneteenth is recognized as a holiday by the city of Marion. This date commemorates the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans. Juneteenth is on the anniversary date of the June 19, 1865, announcement which proclaimed freedom for enslaved people in Texas, the last state with institutional slavery.

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