What Does Juneteenth Celebrate? How to Commemorate the Holiday
On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger rode in Galveston and announced the slave people that the war was over. “According to an announcement from the Executive of the United States,” he told the waiting crowd, “All slaves are independent.” Garat-Skott says, “I imagine the same under the balcony where the General Granger had […]