Juneteenth: Our Country's Second Independence Day
Juneteenth marks our country’s second Independence Day. Although it has long been celebrated in the African American community, this monumental event remains largely unknown to many Americans. Every year on June 19th, we celebrate Juneteenth, a day that marks the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, Union Soldiers arrived in Galveston, TX to announce that enslaved African Americans were finally free. After...
