Juneteenth A Splash Again in River City

MOSS POINT -- The fountain in the center of the city's River Walk provided some water fun and added to the many activities for children celebrating the Moss Point Juneteenth Freedom and Heritage Festival on Saturday, June 18.

The water also offered some relief from the heat of the day, which reached into the 90s.

Moss Point Celebrates Juneteenth for Second Year
WLOX TV 13 June 18, 2011

This year marked Moss Point's second for the national festival that celebrates the conclusion of slavery in practice across the United States. Union Gen. Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston on June 19, 1865, and took over Texas to enforce the end of the involuntary servitude. The enforcement came more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation officially declared slavery's end on Jan. 1, 1863.

Moss Point Celebrates Juneteenth Freedom and Heritage Festival

The Mississippi Press/June 19, 2011