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When Was the First Juneteenth Celebration in Los Angeles? – LAmag

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Public events started in 1975, but the NAACP marked it a decade earlier Pacoima was the first place the city celebrated Juneteenth in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times reported that the City of Los Angeles Parks and Recreation Department held its third annual observance at the Pacoima Recreation Center in 1977. A celebration in 1975 would have been a full five years before the state of Texas became the first to make Juneteenth a government hol…
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ReportWire broke the news on Friday, June 19, 2026.
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