Juneteenth is Friday, June 19, a holiday that is arguably as important to our nation as the Fourth of July, since it commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people of Texas, then the most remote region of the Confederacy, finally learned slavery had been abolished and that they were …
What Juneteenth is, and why you may not have heard about it until this year. The Texas holiday celebrates the day in 1865 when enslaved people of Texas finally learned slavery had been abolished.