Daniel TilsonJune 18, 20146min188
Juneteenth is a too-little-known annual day of celebration and reflection observed every June 19, commemorating the actual end of American slavery in 1865. It’s the day on which 149 years ago in Galveston, Texas, Gen. Gordon Granger and Union Army soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, by freeing all […]