1863, that freed the slaves of the Confederate states in rebellion against the Union. It took more than two years for news of the proclamation to reach the slaves in the distant state of Texas. The arrival of the news on June 19 (of 1865) is now...
June 19 commemorates the last enslaved African Americans being freed in the U.S. — in 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas (two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation). It became a state holiday in 2020 and a federal holiday in 2021 (the first approved since Mart...