ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — A local nonprofit organization and the City of Asheville are collaborating to host a series of events to commemorate Juneteenth this year.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County, in partnership with the City of Asheville, will highlight local leaders, Asheville’s Black history, and more.
Juneteenth dates back to June 19, 1865, the day that Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that the Civil War had ended and enslaved people were free. This came over two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, in which he declared that all slaves in Confederate states were to be free…