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Juneteenth Jazz With Gino Rosaira at A Touch Of Class

Courtesy of Evvnt | Posted on May 25, 2021

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A Touch Of Class
202 Jonquil Avenue Northwest
Fort Walton Beach, FL
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Juneteenth Jazz With Gino Rosaira at A Touch Of Class

When

Sat, June 19, 2021
7:00 pm

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Juneteenth Jazz with Gino Rosaria is just one way to celebrate this historic occasion through music. This day is rightly seen as a joyous celebration of freedom and a call for education, action, and reflection. Juneteenth celebrates the day African Americans in Texas learned of their freedom two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Celebrated in cities across the country. June 19, 1865, Union Army General Gordon Granger publicly read General Order No. 3 after his arrival in Galveston, Texas with 2,000 Union troops, declaring that all formerly enslaved people in the state were now freed....

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