This Friday, June 19, Milwaukee marks 55 years of celebrating Juneteenth Day.
Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger and his troops traveled to Galveston, Texas, to issue General Order No. 3. It announced that enslaved Black Americans had been freed from bondage.
Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021. It became an official City of Milwaukee holiday one year later…