The Civil War had ended on April 9, and the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued on January 1, 1863. The day, also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, ...

It's the only known copy that we're aware of of the General Order number 3 when when Lincoln freed the slaves in 1863 with the Emancipation Proclamation, that was kind of for the rest of the country.

Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19 every year, commemorates the day the news of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation reached the south – almost three years after Lincoln signed the ...

Union soldiers' arrival in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, enforced the Emancipation Proclamation there. All federal agencies, except for some state governments, stores, ...

Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States, is this week.. Although Juneteenth celebrations were documented as early as 1866, it wasn't officially ...

This event occurred two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Juneteenth was officially declared a federal holiday on June 17, 2021. Here is what to know about the ...