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Food, fun and fellowship will be on tap Friday and Saturday as the community is invited to celebrate Juneteenth in Mount Pleasant. TRIBUNE ARCHIVE PHOTO -
Juneteenth celebrations
Juneteenth, a blending together of the words June and nineteenth, or June 19, is now a U.S. federal holiday as of 2021. It was June 19, 1865, when Union Army Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston and explained to Texas slaves of their emancipation. That day in 1865 came more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln first issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. While…