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Just seven years after learning of their freedom, a group of formerly enslaved Black Texans purchased land in 1872 to ...
My heart aches for what I know the enslaved people had to deal with. They sacrificed so much,” said state Sen. John Lovick.
Opal Lee was 89 when she began her campaign to make the day a federal holiday. At 98. she's still an inspiration ...
Lafayette joined cities across the nation in celebrating Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved ...
President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal ...
Mountain State residents celebrate another proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln. On Jan. 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. On June 20, 1863, he declared that Mountaineers are ...
Juneteenth, the nation's most recent federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery ...
Music could be heard throughout the Sioux City Public Museum on Thursday during Sioux City’s NAACP Juneteenth celebration.
At the Juneteenth Cookout, families, adults and teenagers gathered together to celebrate the day commemorating the end of ...
Acknowledging the historical link between the end of Black slavery in the U.S. and the creation of the State of West Virginia ...
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - June 19, 1865 Major General Gordon Granger announced freedom to the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas nearly two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation ...