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New Port Richey recognizes Juneteenth, African American Club hosts festival to celebrate

On June 7, the city of New Port Richey invited the African American Club of Pasco County to attend its regular meeting for a proclamation of Juneteenth Day of Observance. ....

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Takeaways from Tallahassee — Emancipation anniversary

Cord Byrd is in charge of more than just Florida's elections. ....

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Tallahassee observes Emancipation Day with celebrations May 20

Historical reenactment and reading of the Emancipation Proclamation will be held Friday on the steps of the Knott House Museum. ....

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Tallahassee and Leon County will observe Emancipation Day this week

Tallahassee and Leon County will observe Emancipation Day this week
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May 20 Is Emancipation Day, Florida's Version of Juneteenth

Every summer, Americans across the nation celebrate Juneteenth, the annual June 19 holiday that commemorates the official end of slavery in the U.S. On that day in 1865, Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce President Abraham Lincoln s Emancipation Proclamation, the document signed two years earlier that freed the nation s enslaved people.
But in Florida, the date of May 20, 1865, might hold even more significance. One month before Granger made it to Galveston, Union Brigadier Gen. Edward M. McCook stopped in Tallahassee to make a similar announcement. Down the street from the state Capitol at the Hagner House (today the Knott House Museum), McCook declared that all Black people were now free citizens of the United States. The news which, before the days of mass media and the invention of the telephone, came as a surprise to many was toasted at a celebratory picnic at Tallahassee s Bull s Pond by those who d been enslaved. ....

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