Today celebrates the day that the last of the enslaved African Americans were freed — Juneteenth.
“Juneteenth means freedom. I mean, this was our liberty. This was our freedom,” said Earl Daryn, 90, a Corona resident who attended a weekend festival in Santa Ana celebrating the holiday.
“Fourth of July really doesn’t mean anything because we weren’t free on the fourth of July,” Daryn said. “This is our Fourth of July.”
The federal holiday established in 2021 by President Joe Biden commemorates the last enslaved African Americans were freed on June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation…