Find virtual and in-person opportunities to celebrate Juneteenth on the UW–Madison campus and surrounding community. Juneteenth is celebrated each year on June 19 to commemorate the day in 1865 when U.S. troops liberated nearly 200,000 Black Americans in Texas, bringing freedom to the last enslaved people in the former Confederacy more than …
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