June 19 is honored as the first time Black Americans were thought of as free people in this country. The celebrations for Juneteenth began in 1866 – some people held parties, parades ...

But even with Granger's General Order No. 3 — which informed Galveston residents that slavery would no longer be tolerated, all slaves were free ... The first Juneteenth celebration took ...

NEW YORK - June nineteenth is Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery. The holiday is in remembrance of when Union General Gordon Granger informed people in Texas that all ...

Juneteenth ceremonies have kicked off in the ... held as slaves" within Confederate states "are and henceforth shall be free”. A blog post for the National Museum of African American Culture ...

They were free. The day became known as Juneteenth, a word created by joining the words ‘June’ and ‘nineteenth’ together, and has been celebrated every year by African-American people to ...

More than six decades after American minister and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the historic speech, “I Have a Dream,” from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, ...