Norristown's Juneteenth Jubilee Coming Up: What To Know

NORRISTOWN, PA — Norristown will hold their 5th annual Juneteenth Jubilee this weekend in celebration of the freedom of African-Americans.

The event will take place from noon 6 p.m. near the intersection of Dekalb Street and Main Street.

Live music, local vendors, food trucks, carnival games, face painting, line dancing, and more will take place.

There is also free admission to the Charlie Blockson exhibit, a one man art show from Theatre Horizon, and more.

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved African Americans that the Civil War was over and slavery had been abolished.

While symbolically important, and the date is often celebrated as the end of slavery, this did not end slavery in the United States. That did not occur until the passage of the 13th Amendment several months later, that Dec. 1865.