06/19/2026
President Lincoln declared that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in the Confederate States “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” But not all African Americans would be free until well after the end of the Civil War.
Juneteenth, observed on June 19, commemorates the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Texas and announced the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. The day is often memorialized by prayer and family gatherings.
However you are spending your day, we hope you are safe.
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Juneteenth is an often overlooked event in our nation’s history. On June 19, 1865, Union troops freed enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay and across Texas some two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
