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Juneteenth events in Murfreesboro: City plans three-day festival


Murfreesboro will be extending its usual Juneteenth celebration into a three-day event this year.
Juneteenth refers to June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger informed the people of Galveston, Texas, that President Abraham Lincoln had freed enslaved people in rebel states two and a half years earlier through the Emancipation Proclamation.
Although Lincoln proclaimed the emancipation of enslaved people, effective Jan. 1, 1863, slave owners were responsible for telling the enslaved they were free. Some ignored the order until Union troops arrived to enforce it, according to Cliff Robinson, founder of Juneteenth.com. Texas was the last Confederate state to have the proclamation announced. ....

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