Juneteenth is worth celebrating in Croton-on-Hudson. Here are some ways to do it.
Juneteenth is a federal holiday marking the end of slavery in the United States. That happened more than two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Here is a primer on the origins of the holiday. Two and a half years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union troops arrived in Texas and announced that the 250,000 people still enslaved there were now free.
Thank you for sharing. The history of this holiday is very interesting and important for people to understand.