The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, sermons and shared ...

Fast-forward to 1968, when the Poor People’s Campaign held a Juneteenth Solidarity Day ... musical performance and prayers. As time went by, the descendants of those who had been enslaved ...

This day came to be known as Juneteenth by the newly freed people in Texas as a symbolic ... beginning in 1866 with parades, cookouts, prayer gatherings, historical and cultural readings and ...