What is Juneteenth?
What is Juneteenth? June 19, 1865, is a day that black Americans should never forget. A mixture of “June” and “nineteenth,” Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when a group of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally learned that they were free from the institution of slavery. However, this was almost two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Since that proclamation was made during the Civil War, it was ignored by Confederate
