Emancipation Day celebrates when Andrew Johnson freed his slaves on August 8, 1863. Sam Johnson, a former slave, set up the ...

ALTON - Alton has a long-standing Juneteenth Celebration tradition and the Juneteenth Committee is already in preparation for ...

Tennessee celebrates Emancipation Day on August 8, marking the day many enslaved Tennesseans learned of their freedom. While President Andrew Johnson freed his slaves, his legacy is complex due to his ...

The slaves had come to San Bernardino in 1852 with their owner, Robert Smith, part of the Mormon founding of the community.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ...

Thursday is Juneteenth, a holiday that celebrates the day the last American slaves officially learned they were free on June 19, 1865 — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

While relatively new on the national stage, the Juneteenth holiday has been celebrated in African American communities for more than 150 years.

The first official celebrations, initially called "Jubilee Day" celebrations, took place a year later across Texas, featuring parades and public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation.

"Juneteenth is a reminder that the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 did not free all the slaves, all the people who were enslaved, and even the end of the Civil didn't guarantee freedom for ...