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African American Club of The Villages hosting inaugural Juneteenth celebration
When Brenda Seals attended Juneteenth celebrations as a child in Galveston, Texas, she didnt know she had a personal connection to the historic day.
It wasnt until she became an adult that she learned one of her maternal ancestors was a slave in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when General Order Number 3 was read there, proclaiming that all American slaves had been set free.