STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST NEWS BY SUBSCRIBING TO MORNING REPORT NEWSLETTER Griffin also purchased a rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation for $4.4 million at the same Sotheby’s auction on ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.

The holiday originated in Galveston, Texas, in 1865, marking the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. Juneteenth was designated a federal holiday by President Biden in 2021. Federal ...

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 ...