Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is an important holiday celebrated annually on June 19th in the United States. It commemorates
Emancipation from slavery came at different times in Southern states as the Civil War ended. In Texas, it came on June 19, 1865, and Black Americans began celebrating the date in 1866. During the Jim Crow era, such festivities were more subdued as.
The last group of slaves in the United States were officially freed after Union troops finally won the Civil War and arrived in Galveston, Texas, to share the news on June 19, 1865. Juneteenth commemorates that day. And where 2,000 Union troops brought the news to Galveston, one woman heralded the celebration in Milwaukee: Margaret