Edward M. McCook read the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee. Emancipation Day and Juneteenth took place two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation ...

Gordon Granger arrived in the state of Texas to share the news of the Emancipation Proclamation, announcing the official end of the Civil War. Juneteenth was signed into law as a federal holiday ...

The news came two and half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, and more than two months after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at ...

Texas finally learned of their emancipation nearly two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. This delayed notification reveals the harsh reality that slaveholders deliberately ...

Even though we know that the Emancipation Proclamation freed African Americans in rebelling states (Texas being one of them, from as early as it when the Proclamation went into effect on January ...

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas,learned of their freedom — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Recognized as ...

The video above is from FOX19 NOW’s media partners’ previous coverage. CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Dr. Opal Lee, the woman known for her significant role in making Juneteenth a federally recognized ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it's come to anchor the unofficial ...

(WCJB) -Emancipation Day in Florida is May 20th, it is the anniversary of Union generals reading the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee in 1865 Celebrations filled the streets around the Cotton ...