Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostKC Shead, coach of the Denver Elite Diamondz dance group, performs in front of a crowd of demonstrators at the start of a Juneteenth march from Manual High School through Five Points on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostPrincess Rau'Niyiah (center), 5, smiles up at her coach, Jazoni Johnson, as they take part in a Juneteenth march from Manual High School through Five Points on June 13, 2020, in Denver. The girls are members of the dance group, Platinum Divaz, which performed at the march.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostLyric Davis of the Kings and Queens of Dynasty dance team, performs in front of a crowd of demonstrators at the start a Juneteenth march from Manual High School through Five Points on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostDenver Public School Board Member, Tay Anderson addresses the crowd of demonstrators at the start of a Juneteenth march from Manual High School through Five Points honoring Juneteenth on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostDenver Public School Board Member, Tay Anderson holds a megaphone as Alvertis Simmons addresses the crowd of demonstrators at the start of a Juneteenth march from Manual High School through Five Points honoring Juneteenth on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostDemonstrators take part in a march from Manual High School through Five Points honoring Juneteenth on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostDemonstrators take part in a march from Manual High School through Five Points honoring Juneteenth on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostDemonstrators carry a list of names of victims of police violence during a Juneteenth march from Manual High School through Five Points on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostClarice Strother, a Five Points native, cheers on demonstrators from her porch as they march past her home during a Juneteenth celebration in Five Points on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostTerrell Smith, 2, watches on with his mother Desire Hodge as demonstrators march through Five Points honoring Juneteenth on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostPeggy Wortham, 74, a member of the Buffalo Soldier bikers group takes part in a Juneteenth demonstration outside Manual High School in Five Points on June 13, 2020, in Denver. In 1963, shortly after graduating high school, Wortham took part in the march on Washington led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostMembers of the Buffalo Soldiers bikers group, ride through Five Points during march honoring Juneteenth on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostA member of the biker group, Buffalo Soldiers wears purple laced boots at a Juneteenth demonstration at Manual High School in Five Points on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostTaliya Griffin dances in front of a crowd of demonstrators at the start of a Juneteenth march from Manual High School through Five Points on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostA demonstrator carries a sign saying 'I am Juneteenth' during a march from Manual High School through Five Points honoring Juneteenth on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
Kevin Mohatt, Special to The Denver PostLyric Davis of the Kings and Queens of Dynasty dance team, performs in front of a crowd of demonstrators at the start a Juneteenth march from Manual High School through Five Points on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
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KC Shead, coach of the Denver Elite Diamondz dance group, performs in front of a crowd of demonstrators at the start of a Juneteenth march from Manual High School through Five Points on June 13, 2020, in Denver.
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People marched from Manual High School through Five Points in honor of Juneteenth on Saturday, June 13, 2020, in Denver. The Juneteenth celebration commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers, led by Gen. Gordon Granger, arrived at Galveston, Texas, with the news that the enslaved had been freed 2 1/2 years earlier.