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Robert Bell, left, from Louisville, and Charles Turner, from La Grange, paused under a tree during the morning rain as they toured the cemetery during a Juneteenth historical event held at the African Cemetery No. 2 in Lexington, Ky., on Saturday, June 18, 2011. The pair are members of the 12th United States Colored Heavy Artillery regiment and are living historians who gave a presentation that morning about Kentucky African American's history in the Civil War. Juneteenth is the annual celebration in Lexington of the Day the Emancipation Proclamation was read in Galveston, Texas. The African Cemetery No. 2 on 7th Street in Lexington is the oldest recorded cemetery in Lexington to be organized, owned, and managed by African Americans.

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Robert Bell, left, from Louisville, and Charles Turner, from La Grange, paused under a tree during the morning rain as they toured the cemetery during a Juneteenth historical event held at the African Cemetery No. 2 in Lexington, Ky., on Saturday, June 18, 2011. The pair are members of the 12th United States Colored Heavy Artillery regiment and are living historians who gave a presentation that morning about Kentucky African American's history in the Civil War. Juneteenth is the annual celebration in Lexington of the Day the Emancipation Proclamation was read in Galveston, Texas. The African Cemetery No. 2 on 7th Street in Lexington is the oldest recorded cemetery in Lexington to be organized, owned, and managed by African Americans.