Honoring Juneteenth: A Time for Remembrance, Reflection, and Research
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 until this day that freedom was…
