People celebrate Juneteenth around Louisville with special events
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There have been dozens of Juneteenth celebrations in Kentuckiana to commemorate the date.
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Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to order freedom for the enslaved people of the state — two months after the Confederacy had surrendered in the Civil War.
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