REXBURG For the third year in a row, the Rexburg community will gather to celebrate Juneteenth. The event commemorates June 19, 1865, when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were delivered the news that the Civil War had ended and that they were freed from slavery. Because June 19 falls on a Sunday this […]
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