Juneteenth – also called Emancipation Day, Freedom Day or Jubilee Day – commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, received news that they were free, two years ...
What is the Juneteenth flag? First created in 1997 by National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation founder Ben Haith, the banner is in red, white and blue of the U.S. flag to convey that all enslaved ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON — The Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on Thursday, June 19, a federal holiday marking the day the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were ...
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