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Posted on: June 5, 2023

Cobb NAACP to Host Annual Juneteenth Celebration on Marietta Square

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June 5, 2023

CONTACT: Jeriene Grimes 

770-425-5757

MARIETTA - The Cobb County Branch of the NAACP is pleased to host the 20th Annual Juneteenth Celebration on the Marietta Square Friday, June 16 - Sunday, June 18, 2023.

Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth honors the end to slavery in the United States and is considered the longest-running African American holiday. On June 17, 2021, it officially became a federal holiday. 

Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House two months earlier in Virginia, but slavery had remained relatively unaffected in Texas—until U.S. General Gordon Granger stood on Texas soil and read General Orders No. 3: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”


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