KM’s Juneteenth celebration June 24

By Loretta Cozart Juneteenth,

Freedom

Day, sponsored by The Davidson Association, and co-sponsored by City of Kings Mountain and Mauney Memorial Library, is Saturday, June 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Deal Street Walking Track at 211 N Cleveland Ave in Kings Mountain.

Activities during the event include face painting, music, dancing, storyboarding, horse club, and a puppet show. They also have a prayer tent for those in need of prayer. The U.S. Congress passed the bill on June 16, 2021, making Juneteenth a federal holiday officially on June 19 to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. The holiday was first celebrated in Texas, where on that date in

1865, in the aftermath of the Civil War, enslaved people were declared free under the terms of the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation.

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