Juneteenth – Day of Emancipation

The theme for 2024 is “Jubilee,”  and marks a joyous celebration of the emancipation.

Juneteenth, a combination of the words June and 19th, is also known as Emancipation Day. It commemorates the day in 1865, when a Union General arrived in Galveston, Texas, (2 years later) to inform the last known group of enslaved African Americans of their freedom under President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.

The theme for 2024 is “Jubilee,”  and marks a joyous celebration of the emancipation.