Today we celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth is a combo name for June 19, 1865 when Union soldiers freed the enslaved people of Texas shortly after the end of our Civil War. It's a federal holiday but not a state holiday here in Wisconsin. Not yet, anyway.
The "offical" Madison Juneteenth celebration will be tomorrow beginning with a parade down Park Street which starts at the Madison Labor Temple and ends at Penn Park where people will whoop it up.
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