16 days of free fun! The July4thPhilly festival gets underway today with a Juneteenth block party and free admission to the AAMPMuseum. WawaWelcomeAmerica
Festivalgoers can watch live performances from international and local artists, a community marketplace featuring Black-owned businesses, vendors, community partners and food trucks. They also got moving with hands-on activities including artmaking and line dancing.June 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. has its roots in the freeing of people who were previously enslaved in Galveston, Texas more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
On June 19, 1865, Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. The following year on June 19, celebrations began in Galveston and the observance has grown nationwide since.
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