Juneteenth is a federal holiday for Black Americans to celebrate the emancipation of our enslaved ancestors and honor their sacrifice.

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through Galveston, Texas, with the message that enslaved people were free.

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