Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Chelsea Andrews, of Washington, waves the Juneteenth flag during a Juneteenth celebration at Black Lives Matter Plaza in ...
Often called "America's second Independence Day" or "Black Independence Day," Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It is celebrated annually every June 19 and is the first ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed - after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The ...
A view of a section of the 1865 Juneteenth General Order No. 3 that is displayed by the Dallas Historical Society at the Fair Park Hall of State in Dallas on June 6. It was 160 years ago that enslaved ...