Juneteenth — also known as Emancipation Day, Black Independence Day and Jubilee Day — is the 11th federal holiday and the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created in 1983.
Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery and commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and informed enslaved African Americans that the Civil War had ended and they were free.
Granger's message came more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
The 13th Amendment was ratified a few months later in December of 1865, formally abolishing slavery in the US.
The 13th Amendment was ratified a few months later in December of 1865, formally abolishing slavery in the US.
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