Also known as Freedom Day, Emancipation Day or America's second Independence Day, Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. after the Civil War. Many Americans have celebrated it ...

Gordon Granger, arrived two months after the effective end of the Civil War, and almost two-and-a ... delivered directly to your inbox. The first Juneteenth celebration took place in Texas in ...

So what is Juneteenth? It commemorates June 19, 1865, the day—more than two months after the end of the Civil War—that Union ...

This Juneteenth I returned to the memorial to honor him and all who served our country, one that spent its first two centuries seeing most of its Black people as someone else's property. In a ...

For the fourth year in a row, the Medina community will come together in the city’s historic square to observe Juneteenth.

Music festivals, parades, marches and more commemorate Juneteenth across America. Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day.

The day became known as Juneteenth, a word created by joining ... slavery was one of the main reasons behind the American Civil War, which broke out in 1861. At that time, Northern States (known ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...

The Metuchen Edison Piscataway Area Branch of the NAACP’s Juneteenth celebration this year has been moved off federal ...

Juneteenth has been celebrated ... legendary clashes that were waged after the war was technically over. Who was Ida B. Wells? A journalist, suffragist, civil rights leader, and now the latest ...