CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Communities across the Lowcountry are marking Juneteenth with events honoring the end of slavery in the United States while celebrating Black history, culture and resilience.
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas finally learned they were free and that slavery had been abolished, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
One of the region’s largest celebrations is taking place at the International African American Museum in downtown Charleston…