When troops finally arrived to signal freedom to the state’s 250,000 slaves, celebrations broke out and Juneteenth was born! Read! Learn! Listen! Cook and Create! There are so many ways to learn and ...

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 ...

The people danced and sang in celebration of their freedom. Today, we pay tribute to this historical day with a special holiday on June 19 called Juneteenth. This colorfully illustrated story takes ...

He travels throughout Texas and discovers how the Juneteenth holiday reveals the hope and courage that empowered the formerly enslaved and their descendants to fight for freedom in an often unjust ...

To commemorate the end of slavery, a new holiday was created on June 19, abbreviated to Juneteenth, that we celebrate to this day. Texas was the first to make Juneteenth a state holiday in 1980 ...