On June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and forever changed the lives of African-Americans there. Granger announced that the Civil War was over and read and enforced the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in Texas. The Proclamation had been issued two and a half years earlier, on Jan. 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln, but many slaves in the southern states were not aware they had gained freedom.
Juneteenth celebrates freedom
Saturday, June 16, 2007 | 7:53 p.m. CDT;
updated 6:13 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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