By Press release submission |
Jun 21, 2022
Juneteenth marks the anniversary of the day that General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, announcing that all 250,000+ previously enslaved people in Texas were now free. (General Granger’s historic June 19, 1865 announcement in Texas came over two and half years AFTER Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.)