Juneteenth is a celebration day because it is the day slaves were declared free. Maybe only in Texas? There are celebrations in most towns of any size here.
“Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day and Cel-Liberation Day, is an American holiday celebrated on June 19. It memorializes June 19, 1865, when Union general Gordon Granger read orders in Galveston, Texas, that all previously enslaved people in Texas were free.”
It’s celebrated in Colorado, too.
Way more legit than the totally fake Kwanzaa.
Yes, only in Texas. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln on Sept. 22, 1862 (to be effective Jan. 1, 1863), but no one in Texas knew about it until June 19, 1865 when it was read in Galveston. News travelled slowly in those days. It took 2 1/2 years!