CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – Students in Cedar Rapids are using their summer break to learn about the significance of Juneteenth as part of the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success.
Specifically, the day marks the day when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they were free 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
The holiday and what it represents is very new to some students…