Today, Americans commemorate Juneteenth, the day General Orders No. 3 declared that all enslaved people in the Lone Star State, approximately 250,000, were now free. Juneteenth Juneteenth2022
The summer calendar has a new national holiday this year. A celebration born and bred in Texas, it is one that not everyone is familiar with given that it was only signed into law last year by President Joe Biden. To understand Juneteenth, one must visit Galveston, its birthplace. It was in Galveston that, in June 1865, General Gordon Granger of the Union Army arrived with a force of more than 2,000 troops, many of them Black.
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Galveston's Juneteenth celebration commemorates when last enslaved people learned of freedomThe city designated five sites you can walk to explore how the events of June 19, 1865 unfolded.
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Galveston's Juneteenth celebration commemorates when last enslaved people learned of freedomThe city designated five sites you can walk to explore how the events of June 19, 1865 unfolded.
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‘A celebration of freedom’: Galveston’s Reedy Chapel A.M.E. Church historical site of original Juneteenth celebrationMore than 150 years ago, the old courthouse in Galveston on Post Office Street is where enslaved people learned they were free. Down the street is the site of the first documented celebration of Juneteenth.
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Beto O’Rourke tells Juneteenth crowds in Galveston that more work must be done
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Juneteenth celebrations planned around San Diego County this weekendJuneteenth is the commemoration of the end of slavery specifically in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Enforcement of President Lincoln's proclamation generally relied on the advance of Union troops.
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Juneteenth Events In San Diego This WeekendSan Diegans started celebrating Juneteenth Friday and will be well into the weekend until official Juneteenth.
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