JUNETEENTH—Ending of Slavery in the U. S. Oldest Nationally Celebrated Commemoration
JUNETEENTH—Ending of Slavery in the U. S. Oldest Nationally Celebrated Commemoration
JUNETEENTH—Ending of Slavery in the U. S. Oldest Nationally Celebrated Commemoration

Thu, 06/10/2021 - 5:00am

June 19, 1865, General Order Number 3, at various landmarks in the city of Galveston, Texas, a major port, Major-General Gordon Granger (1821-1876) (Union General in the Civil War) (career U. S. Army Officer) read the following announcement of Emancipation about two months after the conclusion of the Civil War ...

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