The U Celebrates Juneteenth: “And Still We Rise”
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On Wednesday, June 19, 2024, the University of Utah will commemorate Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal and state holiday celebrated annually to mark the notification of emancipation to enslaved people in southern Texas. The name is a combination of the words “June” and “nineteenth,” for it was on June 19, 1865, when Union Army Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas to pronounce the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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