Juneteenth

2020 Juneteenth Celebration, Washington DC
Carol Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress

On June 19, 1865, two years and six months after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas with General Order No. 3 announcing that all enslaved people in Texas were now free.  

• Library of Congress: Juneteenth
• Southern Poverty Law Center: A Brief History of Juneteenth
• Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson:
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• The White House: Remarks by President Biden, Signing of Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, June 17, 2021