Members of the Victory Dancers Crenshaw District dance team perform at the Leimert Park Juneteenth Festival on Saturday, June 18, in Los Angeles, California.
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Updated 12:45 PM ET, Sun June 19, 2022
Members of the Victory Dancers Crenshaw District dance team perform at the Leimert Park Juneteenth Festival on Saturday, June 18, in Los Angeles, California.
Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
People across the United States gather for parades, parties and performances to celebrate Juneteenth holiday weekend.
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Galveston, Texas, in accordance with President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.
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