Texans can only buy fireworks around the holidays of the Fourth of July, New Year's and, for Texans who live near the ...

Music festivals, parades, marches and more commemorate Juneteenth across America. Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day.

For the fourth year in a row, the Medina community will come together in the city’s historic square to observe Juneteenth.

The 157-year-old holiday, the name of which is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth," commemorates the day in 1865 when ... The first Juneteenth celebration took place in Texas in 1866, with ...

The holiday is observed annually on June 19 to honor the slaves freed in Galveston Bay, Texas, on June 19, 1865. Texans celebrated Juneteenth beginning in 1866 with parades, cookouts, prayer ...

On 19 June 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, received momentous news: slavery had been abolished. They were free. The day became known as Juneteenth, a word created by joining the words ...

The award comes just months before the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth. It was back on June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers landed in Galveston, freeing a quarter million enslaved people in Texas.

Juneteenth remembers June 19, 1865, when a Union general told enslaved African Americans in Texas that the war had ended and the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect. In a proclamation in June ...

Right now, Texans can only buy fireworks around the holidays of the Fourth of July, New Year's and, for Texans who live near the Texas-Mexico border, Cinco de Mayo. Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865 ...