AUSTIN, Texas — Celebrations of Emancipation Day, also known as Juneteenth, rang throughout Austin Thursday morning.
“It is a federal holiday based on Texas history,” said state Rep. Sheryl Cole, D-Austin.
Juneteenth, which is celebrated on June 19, commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston learned the Civil War had ended more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed…