It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...

The Warren County Emancipation Proclamation Committee will host its second Community Juneteenth Celebration from 11 a.m.-3 ...

Jun. 19 is Juneteenth, a time to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. On this day in 1865, more than 200,000 ...

June 19, 1865, about 2,000 Union troops marched into Galveston Bay, Texas to announce the freedom of the remaining enslaved people, 2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Juneteenth ...

June 19, 1865—when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the Emancipation ...