San Diegans started celebrating Juneteenth Friday and will be well into the weekend until official Juneteenth.
Americans across the nation this weekend will be celebrating Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating slavery's end in the United States, which President Joe Biden only just made into a federally-recognized holiday last year.
A quick history: Slavery was finally eradicated on June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The reason it took so long was because enforcement relied on the advance of Union troops. San Diegans started celebrating Juneteenth Friday and will be well into the weekend until official Juneteenth, which falls on Sunday.
Community leaders and members gathered in downtown San Diego to celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S. NBC 7’s Kelvin Henry has details.
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