Because 1776, Fourth of July, where we're celebrating freedom and ... Is there a proper Juneteenth greeting? It's typical to wish people a ''Happy Juneteenth'' or ''Happy Teenth," according ...

Juneteenth Honors a Significant Moment in History Many people think of Emancipation ... By the late 1800s, large crowds of African Americans were celebrating Juneteenth. During these early ...

On 19 June 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, received momentous news: slavery had been abolished. They were free. The day became known as Juneteenth, a word created by joining the words ...

In 2005, the city began celebrating its own Emancipation ... raised money to purchase 10 acres of land where Black people could celebrate Juneteenth. The land would later be known as Emancipation ...

Opal Lee, 97, spent years advocating to get Juneteenth recognized as a federal holiday Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019 ...

A typical Juneteenth celebration consisted of barbecues and music, and plenty of prayer and worship among freed Blacks who gathered to mark the occasion. As Black people traveled throughout ...

The first Juneteenth celebration took place in ... In time, however, white people in certain areas began restricting Black people from celebrating the holiday. To get around one such instance ...