Celebrating Freedom | The Meaning of Juneteenth

2023-09-14T21:26:17+00:00

The following are excerpts from an article by Eleanor Park in the Wall Street Journal on June 18, 2020. Juneteenth is an annual holiday observing the end of slavery in the U.S. and marks the day (June 19, 1865) when news of emancipation reached people in the deepest parts of the former Confederacy in Galveston, Texas.