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.

Because the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to states in the Union, remaining enslaved people were not liberated until the 13th Amendment was ratified on Dec. 18, 1865.

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.

June 19 then came to be known as “Juneteenth,” which was made a federal holiday three years ago. Below, read the full text of 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.

Celebrate Juneteenth in DC, Maryland and Virginia with festivals, exhibits and Emancipation Proclamation display June 19 is Juneteenth, also known as Jubilee Day and Black Independence Day ...

Juneteenth commemorates the final end of slavery in Confederate states just after the end of the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation officially freed all enslaved African American people in the ...

What is Juneteenth? On the eve before Jan. 1, 1863, enslaved and free Black citizens waited anxiously for news that the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect.

As the Civil War continued, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation — effective Jan. 1, 1863 — making it clear to Confederate states fighting to keep slavery that enslaved ...

But the emancipation that took place in Texas that day in 1865 was just the latest in a series of emancipations that had been unfolding since the 1770s, most notably the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the date on which enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally received news from Union soldiers that they were free—2 ½ years after the Emancipation ...

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.