Juneteenth Event and Townhall

Intercection of Orange Avenue and 25th Street FL

JUNETEENTH A CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM Although the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves effective January 1, 1863, it was not until Union troops entered the State of Texas on JUNE 19, 1865 that the slaves there were actually freed. Those souls had been free for over two years and didn’t even know it. To avoid competing […]