On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No. 3. The message was ...

Juneteenth is tied to June 19, 1865, when Union Gen. Gordon Granger ordered enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas.

Emancipation Day celebrates when Andrew Johnson freed his slaves on August 8, 1863. Sam Johnson, a former slave, set up the ...

It also was established as a federal holiday in June 2021. President Abraham Lincoln declared in the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 that all enslaved people were to be freed.

Cordell read portions of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which freed most of the country’s slaves in 1863 but forced those in Texas to wait more that two years to escape ...

Juneteenth, June 19, 1865, marks the day emancipated slaves in Galveston, Texas, finally found out they were free, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation ...

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.

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

On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No. 3.