(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images),People march to theÊGeorgiaÊStateÊCapitol during aÊJuneteenth event Organized by the One Race Movement on June 19, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. A woman was shot in the leg during a protest Friday night near the Wendy's where.The protest, which was held on Juneteenth, was peaceful until suddenly, shots rang out. Protesters and revelers held signs and pushed baby strollers in Dallas, danced to a marching band in Chicago and registered people to vote in Detroit.“Now we have the attention of the world, and we are not going to let this slide,” Charity Dean, director of Detroit’s office of Civil Rights, Inclusion and Opportunity, said at an event that drew hundreds and called for an end to police brutality and racial inequality.Events marking Juneteenth were planned in every major American city Friday, although some were being held virtually because of the coronavirus pandemic. It came the week after Republican lawmakers voted to keep a day commemorating Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader, but remove the governor’s responsibility to sign the annual proclamation for it.The growing recognition of Juneteenth comes as protests have yielded results, including policing reforms in several places. Subscribe. ATLANTA, GEORGIA - JUNE 19: People march to the Georgia State Capitol during a Juneteenth event Organized by the One Race Movement on June 19, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when a Union general read orders in Galveston, Texas stating all enslaved people in Texas were free according to federal law. ... A man is in police custody Friday evening after firing a gun at a driver at a Juneteenth demonstration in Atlanta. (AP Photo/LM Otero),People push an empty symbolic casket during a Juneteenth celebration in the Greenwood District of the city June 19, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Bill Lee signed a proclamation Friday to recognize Juneteenth Day. From CNN's Jamiel Lynch. Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the state and ensure all enslaved people be freed. But it wasn’t enforced in many places until after the Civil War ended in April 1865. Juneteenth commemorates when the last enslaved African Americans learned in 1865 they were free, more than two years following the Emancipation Proclamation. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren),Rodney Newton raises his fist during a moment of silence for the time a Minneapolis police officer knelt on the neck of George Floyd at a Juneteenth protest outside the Statehouse, Friday, June 19, 2020, in Providence, R.I. Juneteenth commemorates when the last enslaved African Americans learned they were free 155 years ago. "It's a conversation starter and I'm trying to bring awareness to it." (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer),A group of climate change activists walk towards Black Lives Matter Plaza as people gather to celebrate Juneteenth on June 19, 2020 in Washington, United States. (AP Photo/LM Otero),Independent dancer Manuela Sanchez of Brooklyn, N.Y., performs in front of hundreds of signs put up along the front of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building on H Street and 16th Street Northwest renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House in Washington, Friday, June 19, 2020, to mark Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that enslaved black people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed from bondage, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images),Jordanne Semper-Scott plays a hymn on her violin during a service outside St. John's Episcopal Church near the White House in Washington, Friday, June 19, 2020.
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