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Juneteenth celebrations span Marysville, Snohomish, Edmonds
MARYSVILLE — Event organizers hope people will take time around Juneteenth to celebrate, learn and support one another throughout Snohomish County.
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers reached Galveston, Texas, and announced over 250,000 enslaved Black people there were free.
It has been celebrated ever since, predominately among Black people. It only recently gained widespread recognition by governments as a holiday.
In his youth Donnie Griffin’s family spent every Juneteenth at a picnic. But it wasn’t as widespread in the Puget Sound region.
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/juneteenth-celebrations-span-marysville-snohomish-edmonds/
