The Lincoln Theatre — located at 769 E. Long St. — held its commemoration for Juneteenth Thursday beginning at 10 a.m.

ALTON - Alton has a long-standing Juneteenth Celebration tradition and the Juneteenth Committee is already in preparation for ...

They were informed of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the civil war by Union soldiers on June 19, 1865. This was two and a half years after it was signed.

Although President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the Confederate states in 1863, it could not be enforced in many places in the South until after the war. Even when ...

Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves effective ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

FLINT, MI — Since Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021, its recognition has continued to grow in Michigan and nationally too. The holiday is observed on June 19 because that’s the date ...

While the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, people who were enslaved in Confederate states could not exercise their freedoms, according to the National ...