The proclamation copy will be on display from June 15 through July 6. More: Lawmakers send Juneteenth bill to Gov. Pritzker, marking day as annual state holiday ...

They were enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which President Abraham Lincoln decreed some enslaved people to be free on January 1, 1863. We're about to hear that document in its entirety.

Juneteenth is typically celebrated with educational activities for children, parades, concerts, beauty pageants and readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, Steve Williams, president of the ...

Thousands queue to see the Emancipation Proclamation and General Order No. 3 Juneteenth weekend gave visitors to the National Archives a chance to see the historic documents, which are rarely ...

Shawna, Tyler, and their son John waiting in line to see the Emancipation Proclamation and General Order No 3. at the National Archives to celebrate Juneteenth on June 19, 2023.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum about an original copy of Emancipation Proclamation it is displaying for Juneteenth.

On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No. 3. The message was ...

They were enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which President Abraham Lincoln decreed some enslaved people to be free on January 1, 1863. We're about to hear that document in its entirety.