Honoring Juneteenth: A Time for Remembrance, Reflection, and Research
Return to the June 2025 Newsletter June 19th, known as Juneteenth, marks a pivotal moment in American history, the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and freed the last enslaved African Americans. Though the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued more than two years earlier, it wasn’t…