Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Honoring Juneteenth

Happy Juneteenth!

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been celebrated and is observed annually on June 19th.

It marks the day in 1865 when Union Army General Gordon Granger and 2,000 Union Troops arrived in Galveston, Texas bringing the news that slavery had been abolished by the Emancipation Proclamation.