The date is becoming more widely known due to the efforts of Black historians who have been sharing the date's importance ...

Short for “June Nineteenth,” the holiday marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the ...

Juneteenth has long been recognized and celebrated, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. But it didn't become a ...

No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

Though celebrated for hundreds of years in parts of the U.S., Juneteenth’s history and significance only recently scaled for ...

For Juneteenth on Morning Edition, professor Nathan Connolly reflects on the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation, and NPR staff voice the document in its entirety. Today, the country observes ...

ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

The 64th Annual Emancipation Proclamation Celebration in Gary — a constant to usher in the new year — also ushered in a new era for the Interfaith Clergy Council of Gary & Vicinity as its ...