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For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
Juneteenth World Wide Celebration, website for 150th anniversary celebration; Juneteenth Historical Marker, Juneteenth historical marker at 2201 Strand, Galveston, TX; 2022 Holidays, United States Office of Personal Management
As the birthplace of Juneteenth, Galveston will be hosting a major celebration this year. Festivities will include a gala, poetry festival, proclamation reading, parade, ... Texas. In 1872, a ...
Members of Reedy Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church march to celebrate Juneteenth on June 19, 2021 in Galveston, Texas. ... Juneteenth celebrations began in Texas and other Southern states ...
Juneteenth National Independence Day 2021 Commemorates General Order No. 3, the legal decree issued in 1865 by Union General Gordon Granger enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation to the residents of Galveston, Texas , at the end of the American Civil War .
One of the earliest was the Galveston Tri-Weekly News, which printed General Order No. 3 on June 20, 1865, the day after it was issued. [4] On July 7, 1865, The New York Times printed a copy of General Order No. 3 among a series of other recent general orders issued by Granger, which it described as "interesting news from Texas" under the ...
Crystal Baziel holds the Pan-African flag Monday, June 19, 2023, during Reedy Chapel A.M.E Church’s annual Juneteenth Family Fun Day, in Galveston, Texas. (Jennifer Reynolds/The Galveston County ...
Juneteenth became an official state holiday in Texas on January 1, 1980, led by African American state legislator Al Edwards. New Jersey made Juneteenth an official state holiday on June 25, 2020.