Juneteenth celebrations in Texas – in pictures

Texans turned out for a Juneteenth celebration in Galveston, where the event that inspired the holiday took place in 1865.

A small but mighty crowd stood 6ft apart in the blistering Texas sun at 10am on the lawn of Galveston’s historic Ashton Villa.

The Ashton Villa building once served as a residence of the Confederate army during the civil war. It is the same building from which Mj Gen Gordon Granger of the Union army delivered news that all slaves were free on 19 June 1865 – forever etched in American History as “Juneteenth”, the nation’s true Independence Day.

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