Ward 7 to Lead Local Juneteenth Celebration in Lockstep With Other U.S. Cities (opens in new tab)

Community members will celebrate Juneteenth with a Ward 7 parade and picnic, in coordination with Dr. Opal Lee's "Opal's Walk for Freedom", to commemorate the day Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas and declared the end of slavery. The post appeared first on .