Juneteenth

The History and Celebration of Juneteenth

✊🏿 JUNETEENTH ❤🖤💚 June 19, 1865 ✊🏿 ❤🖤💚 FREEDOM DAY A visual tribute to the Strength, Courage, Endurance & Unbreakable Spirit of Our Ancestors. 🙏🏾👑💪🏿🙌🏾 [Evita Ellis] Artist Kevin Wak Williams Free-ish. We must continue the struggle for full equality and equal justice. | Black Table Talk

WE ARE☝🏽Celebrate #Juneteenth June 19, 2024 and #BlackMusicMonth #June2024 🥂 🎆 🎶 #FrankieBeverlyandMaze "We Are One" What Is Juneteenth? ❤️🖤💚 Juneteenth commemorates an effective end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the state and ensure that all enslaved people be freed. The troops’ arrival came a full two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation P

Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. The holiday’s name is a portmanteau of the words “June” and “nineteenth”, as it was on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War.[8][9] Although this date commemorates enslaved people

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