Danvers To Host Freedom Celebration For Juneteenth

DANVERS, MA — Danvers will host its first Freedom Day Celebration and Remembrance ceremony Saturday morning in recognition of Juneteenth.

Juneteenth, which is now a federal holiday, is in recognition of June 19, 1865, when word of the end of the Civil War reached Galveston, Texas and that state's slaves were freed.

The Danvers Human Rights & Inclusion Committee will host the celebration on the lawn at the Peabody Institute Library at 10 a.m.

The event will include a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation and Danvers Juneteenth Proclamation, followed immediately by a fellowship and community art project at Kaffmandu Coffee House.

The public is invited to attend the event.

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(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)