Two Juneteenth events were held Wednesday in Akron to mark the official Juneteenth federal holiday, established in 2021. It commemorates when the U.S. Army arrived in Texas to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation, passed into law two and a half years earlier, that freed enslaved peoples in the United States.
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