On June 19, 1865, Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger stepped onto a balcony in Galveston, Tex. — two months after the Civil War had ended — and announced that more than 250,000 enslaved people in ...

Visitors milled about Gary City Hall grounds Saturday for the city’s second annual Juneteenth Freedom Festival celebration. A DJ and musical entertainers, a poet and dance performances by students of ...

Today is the fourth federally recognized Juneteenth Celebration in the United States. On June 19, 1865, the American Civil War was over but news finally reached slaves in Galveston, Texas. President ...

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An enlarged photo copy of Gen. Gordon Granger's announcement that slaves were freed, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, is displayed next to the original copy of the order the by The ...

Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated Juneteenth's relation to slavery. It celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation, but the Emancipation Proclamation didn't apply to all states in ...

Juneteenth marks the 1865 emancipation of the last group of enslaved people, who were in Texas, 2.5 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. On this day General ...

Enslaved people already had been freed two-and-a-half years earlier, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, according to PBS. So freedom arrived on June ...

Celebrate Juneteenth around D.C. with festivals, history and family-friendly gatherings. The big picture: Juneteenth — a new federal holiday marking the 1865 emancipation of enslaved people in Texas — ...

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