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 ...

SPRINGFIELD—June 19 marks that day in 1865 when Major General Gordon Granger landed in Galveston, Texas with Union troops and enforced the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the last slaves in North ...

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 ...

Just seven years after they learned of their liberation, a group of formerly enslaved Black Texans banded together in 1872 to purchase Emancipation Park in Houston. The 10-acre park was meant to serve ...

Americans are celebrating Juneteenth on June 19, marking the day when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of ...

This story was originally published by The Conversation and is republished here by permission. The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard ...

Juneteenth is a holiday that a growing number of communities around the country have added to their summer calendars. “Juneteenth” is a reference to June 19, 1865, when enslaved blacks in Port Arthur, ...