Juneteenth

Juneteenth fireworks show blasts off Thursday evening

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There will be fireworks over Kilgore Thursday night – an echo of the celebrations that followed June 19, 1865, the day slaves in Texas finally learned they had been freed. “It’s celebrating freedom,” Victor Boyd says. “Freedom from slavery, freedom for a new life.” That’s pretty much it, according to the Kilgore City Council member. […]

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Kilgore Legacy Foundation gets early start on Juneteenth revelry with Saturday celebration

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The news of slaves’ emancipation arrived late in Texas, but freedom’s ring echoes into 2025. More than two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s proclamation ending slavery, it was on June 19, 1865, that Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, and Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger ordered the 250,000 slaves in Texas finally be freed. ‘Juneteenth’ has long

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