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On June 19, 1865, about two months after the Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Va., Gordon Granger, a Union general, arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved African-Americans of their freedom and that the Civil War had ended. General Granger’s announcement put into effect the Emancipation Proclamation, which had been issued more than two and a half years earlier on Jan. 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln. The holiday received its name by combining June and 19. The day is also sometimes called “Juneteenth Independence Day,” “Freedom Day” or “Emancipation Day.”

CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM

STEP ONE

MEET US AT INTERSTATE PARK ON JUNE 18TH FOR A FUN-FILLED DAY CELEBRATING OUR HISTORY & CULTURE.

STEP TWO

sign up to be a volunteer for the 2022 juneteenth festival by completing the volunteer registration form below.

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CULTURE