Planning for Pittsburgh’s Juneteenth Freedom Celebration Festival is in full swing. Juneteenth — or Freedom Day — is a celebration of the emancipation of African Americans and commemorates June 19, 1865, when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to ensure the freedom of all enslaved people. B. Marshall, CEO and
Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the emancipation of Black enslaved people at the end of the Civil War, was officially declared a city of Pittsburgh.