CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced General Order No. 3, informing enslaved African Americans that they were free—more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. While the proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863, its enforcement depended on the […]